William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Life, Relationship

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9

• People hate as they love, unreasonably.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Hate, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family: Easyread Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

  Love, Life, Dream

  The History of Pendennis ch. 6 (1848 - 1850)

• Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Ambition, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Cutting, Bread

  'Sorrows of Werther'

• When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Men, Connected

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.181

• Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Young Friends, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.68

• If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Fun, Truth Is

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.203

• Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Littles, Fool

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The History of Pendennis (Volume 1 of 6 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.167, ReadHowYouWant.com

• We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Character, Should Have

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.128

• True love is better than glory.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Love Is, Glory

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.225

• If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Faithful, Soul

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections”, p.446, 谷月社

• Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Good Night, Sweet

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II”, p.195

• Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Past, Thinking

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.199

• When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Kings, Men

• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

• We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Sweet, Truth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne, Written by Himself”, p.71

• To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Moon, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.292

• What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Selfish, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

• If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Ifs

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.662

• A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Eye, Past

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Wall, Holiday

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

• Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Doors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Roundabout Papers: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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