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Famous William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
“If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.”
“What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
“An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.”
“When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”
“Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?”
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
“When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”
“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
“I would rather make my name than inherit it.”
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.”
“It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.”
“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
“People hate as they love, unreasonably.”
“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”
“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
“'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”