William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Opportunity

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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Eye, Opportunity, Hands

William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Women, Opportunity, Being Thankful

William Makepeace Thackeray (2009). “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero”, p.55, The Floating Press

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