William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Laughter, Book, Expression

• Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Leadership, Book

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.148

• 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

• The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Pleasure, Inferiors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family”, p.167

• Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Spirit, Admiration

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2007). “The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour”, p.64, University of Michigan Press

• Business first; pleasure afterwards.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Firsts, Pleasure, Business First

  The Queen of Paflagonia in 'The Rose and the Ring' (1855) ch. 1

• There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life Is, Fame, Pleasure

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family”, p.167

• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Lying, Passion

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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