black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Related Topics

Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Action Born Establishment Habit People Success Work
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Big Fools Love Small
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Himself Lying Man Pen Thinking Writing
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Argument Body Kindness Proud
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Brave Fashion One Liner
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Decision Eyes Greatness Hands Life Lips Moments Talk World
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Honesty Strong Yourself
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Best Heaven Love Purity Repeat Spirit
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fair Justice One Liner Right
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Change Heart Life Lover Man Oneself Preparation Quick Sad Woman
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Active Believe Man Moral Myself
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Different Eyes Money Value
A person can’t help their birth.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Born Fate Help One Liner Person
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Easy Forgot Injury Kindness Man Mindset Worth
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Desire Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction World
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

Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Comfortable Greatness Imagination People Sick
You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Mindset Order Remember Wrong
One of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fortune God Greatness Man Quality Success
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Death Exception Happiness Sorry
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Dare Inspirational Oppression World Yourself
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Choice Economics Friendship Goodness Wisdom
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes