Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
-
-
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
A person can’t help their birth.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
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 THACKERAY -
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY