25 result(s) for William Thackeray Quotes.
"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out unwavering fortune; to be wholly unarmed against blind malice."
"The wicked are always surprised to find wickedness in others."
"Vanity is the beginning and the end of naughtiness."
"I do not pretend to be a philosopher, and I try to treat the world as a marionette show, in which one is sometimes amused, sometimes revolted, but never for long impressed."
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"It is wonderful how quickly you forget trouble after it is over."
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
"The popularity which a work enjoys after its author's death is a measure of the worth of his thoughts, and the breadth of his humanity."
"The circumstance is the mother of the thought."
"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."
"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best."
"It is not only wicked people who do wicked things, but honest people who do them without taking the time to think."
"Don't quite forget that I am an extremely silly person."
"The happy ending of the fairy tale, the marriage of the prince and princess, is not necessarily a conclusion; it is only a parenthesis."
"The happiest of hours is that which we pass, encircled by the family affections."
"Our conduct is very much the result of circumstances."
"As I look at my life, I see that many of the things I thought were failures were actually blessings in disguise."
"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"
"The art of life is to take events as they come."
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"For who does not know how hard it is to argue with the wise when they are foolish?"
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing."
"I have no brains myself, and I am suspicious of people who have them."
"You see few people who are not spoil'd by their children."
