William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 4

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• Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Ambition, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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  People, Population, Would Be

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.224, BookRix

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• Bad husbands will make bad wives.

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  Anniversary, Husband, Wife

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1855). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.165

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• Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

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  Charming, Peacemaker

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.121, C.W. Parker, [1886-18-- or 19--]

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• Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

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  Life, Years, Dinner

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1889). “The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: With Illustrations by the Author, and with Introductory Notes Setting Forth the History of the Several Works in Twenty-two Volumes”

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• A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Stones, Written

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• A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Pretending, Snob

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• Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

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  Revenge, Wicked, May

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.540, Delphi Classics

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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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  Life, Success, Men

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• To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

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  Ambition, Greatness, Ends

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989

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• Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

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  Happiness, Joy, Desire

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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  Real, Jewels, Vices

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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• Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

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  Eye, Different, Different Values

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.372

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• A person can't help their birth.

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  Helping, Birth, Persons

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.250

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• 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?

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  Laughter, Book, Expression

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• Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

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  Strong, Jealous, Rivals

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• Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

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  Piers, Voyages, Walks

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

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  Disappointment, Grief, Believe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

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• Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

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  Wise, Fate, Vanity

  'Vanitas Vanitatum'

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• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

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  Thorns, Harm, Strikes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.40

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• ...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

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  Tyrants

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.554, Tyché

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• 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 lip,s though they cannot speak.

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  Eye, Opportunity, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

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• Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

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  Heart, Pity

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• You read the past in some old faces.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Past, Age, Faces

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.151

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