When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Humor is wit and love.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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