When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
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Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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