William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

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“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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“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

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“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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