William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Past, Remembrance, World

  "Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray".

• You read the past in some old faces.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Past, Age, Faces

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.151

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Destiny, Past

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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