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Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

  • There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
  • Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
  • Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  • To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness
  • To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
  • To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
  • 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult.
  • A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
  • When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
  • Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.
  • I would rather make my name than inherit it.
  • Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.