William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Heaven

All William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes Affection Age Ambition Appreciation Attitude Character Children Darkness Desire Destiny Disappointment Doubt Dying Equality Fashion Fate Feelings Food Friends Friendship Giving Grace Greatness Grief Happiness Heart Heaven quotes Home Husband Inspirational Joy Justice Kindness Laughter Life Love Lying Opportunity Passion Past Pleasure Quality Son Soul Success Suffering Temptation Wife Winning Writing Youth

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love, Heaven, Trials

William Makepeace Thackeray (1858). “The history of Pendennis: His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy”, p.119

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Heaven, Coquette, Bless

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Men, Heaven, Wish

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Flower, Heaven, Grace

William Makepeace Thackeray (1851). “The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.153