William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kindness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.243, Diversion Books

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• Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Mirrors, Return

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• 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

  Life, Successful, People

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• The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Positive, Attitude, Reflection

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Excellence, Next

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• Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Laughter, Inspiration

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  When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Romantic, Thinking, Looks

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• If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wise, Men, Fool

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9166, Delphi Classics

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• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Family, Mothers Day, God

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.317

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• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

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• All is vanity, nothing is fair.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vanity, Fairs

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• 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

  Friendship, Men, Peaceful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.243, Tyché

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• 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

  Fate, Littles, Way

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by : to which is Now Prefixed A Shabby Genteel Story”, p.53

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• A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beauty, Clever, Successful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

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• A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Joy, Cheerful

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• A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Ears, Fool, Flattery

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.87

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• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fine Words, Half, Sauce

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148

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• No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Habit, Motive

  "Thackeray and his Novels" by William Makepeace Thackeray, Blackwood's Mag, January 1854.

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• There is a skeleton in every house.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Skeletons, House

  "Punch in the East" (1845)

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• Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Destiny, Soul, Training

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• Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Expectations, Persons

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• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Calling, Poverty, Wealth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.101

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• It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Dream

  The History of Pendennis ch. 6 (1848 - 1850)

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• To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Riches, Rich

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

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