Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A person can’t help their birth.
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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.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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.
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