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William Makepeace Thackeray quotes

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

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Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man's face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and popped it in; so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of..."
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real,..."
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. William Makepeace Thackeray
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations... William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not..."
I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem..."
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? William Makepeace Thackeray
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. William Makepeace Thackeray
..though Miss Rebecca Sharp has twice had occasion to thank Heaven, it has been, in the first place, for ridding her of some person whom she hated, and secondly, for enabling her to bring her enemies to some sort of perplexity or confusion; neither of which are very amiable motives for religious gratitude, William Makepeace Thackeray
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
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in..."
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends... William Makepeace Thackeray
To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty... William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone."
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. William Makepeace Thackeray
The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very... William Makepeace Thackeray
By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards—and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous—but the honestest fellow. William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray quote: "Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for..."
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. William Makepeace Thackeray

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