William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Feelings

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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Feelings, Action, Trifling

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Light, Feelings, Hints

William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.862, Diversion Books

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings

William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256