Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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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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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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