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William Makepeace Thackeray quotes

English Novelist, Writer July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863

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Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun William Makepeace Thackeray
No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is..."
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
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next..."
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably! William Makepeace Thackeray
I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a..."
Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "People hate as they love, unreasonably."
People hate as they love, unreasonably. William Makepeace Thackeray
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or..."
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. William Makepeace Thackeray
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you..."
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. William Makepeace Thackeray
Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days. The young man's life is just beginning: the boy's leading-strings are cut, and he has all the novel delights and dignities of freedom. He has no idea of cares yet, or of bad health, or of roguery, or poverty, or to-morrow's disappointment. William Makepeace Thackeray
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. William Makepeace Thackeray
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray

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