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William Makepeace Thackeray quotes

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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.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their...” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“He went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

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