William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 7

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• Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

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  Fate, Honor, Training

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.265

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• Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

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  Party, Two, Cynical

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

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• 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.

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  Flower, Heaven, Grace

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

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• Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

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  Mind, Novelty, Charm

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• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

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  Children, Disappointment, Grief

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• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

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  Heart, Quality, Endurance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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• I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

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  Light, Order, Darkness

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• A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

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  Wise, Sweet, Eye

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2017). “Vanity Fair”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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  Writing, Two, Familiar

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

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  Life, Pleasure, Inferiors

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

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• A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

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  Women, Opportunity, Being Thankful

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2009). “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero”, p.55, The Floating Press

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• Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.

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  Health, Men, Air

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• 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.

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  Life Is, Fame, Pleasure

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

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• 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.

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  Life, Leadership, Book

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

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• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

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  Dirty, Naughty, Light

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• Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

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  Fashion, Different, Taste

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

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  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

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  Faith, Dying, Difficult

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 6 (1852)

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

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  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

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• If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

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  Temptation, Neighbor, Accounts

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.377

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• 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.

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  Love, Heart, Two

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

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• Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

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  Modesty, Diffidence, False Modesty

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• Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

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  Gossip, World, Deals

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.439

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• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

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  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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