William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  New Year, Book, Years

• 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

  Years, Looks, Gaps

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne. Written by Himself”, p.20

• A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Tears, Unhappy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.130

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