The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
-
-
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
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 -
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
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.
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 -
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
A person can’t help their birth.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY -
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY