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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Death, Im Sorry, Dying
William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Men, Spirit, Admiration
William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2007). “The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour”, p.64, University of Michigan Press

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Beauty, Clever, Successful
William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine: A Story”, p.233

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Forgiving, Debt, Failing
William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Conceited, Self, People
William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Riches, Rich
William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Memorial Day, Fashion, Courage
William Makepeace Thackeray (1891). “The four Georges. Sketches and travels in London”

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Littles, Chapters, Seems
William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

There is a skeleton in every house.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Skeletons, House
"Punch in the East" (1845)

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Fine Words, Half, Sauce
William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Women, Remember, Rich
The History of Pendennis ch. 28 (1848 - 1850)

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Laughter, Laughing, Blank
William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Book of Snobs: Sketches of Life and Character, Etc., Etc”, p.226

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Heart, Ifs
William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.662

You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Order, Yesterday, Remembrance
William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I”, p.90

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Heart, Stones, Written

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness, Proud, Disagree
"The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by".

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Levels, Lessons, Calamity

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Couple, Sight, Age
William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Friends, Forget, Snob

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Yield, World, Sometimes
William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.116

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Mean, Doubt, Single Women
William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Happiness, Paradise, Serpent

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Love, Hate, People
William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family: Easyread Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

William Makepeace Thackeray
Beauty, Beautiful, Eye
William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Men, Pretending, Snob

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