William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.928, Modern Library

• We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heaven, Trials

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1858). “The history of Pendennis: His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy”, p.119

• A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Flower, Heaven, Grace

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1851). “The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.153

• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

• The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heaven, Coquette, Bless

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Heaven, Wish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

• Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Years, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.434

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