Bad husbands will make bad wives. William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes From William Makepeace Thackeray 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 wish men heaven It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Makepeace Thackeray dream love life Almost all women have hearts full of pity. William Makepeace Thackeray pity heart When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. William Makepeace Thackeray fate littles way Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them. William Makepeace Thackeray food men thinking All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. William Makepeace Thackeray virtuous-woman amusement rely-upon You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth. William Makepeace Thackeray wealth poverty calling Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us. William Makepeace Thackeray occasions father Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. William Makepeace Thackeray done book world The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. William Makepeace Thackeray double-standard vices names Love makes fools of us all, big and little. William Makepeace Thackeray fool littles love 'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.' William Makepeace Thackeray business kings breakfast Never marry with the expectation of changing a person. William Makepeace Thackeray persons expectations 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 admiration spirit men What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. William Makepeace Thackeray heart appreciation mean Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. William Makepeace Thackeray cooking food talking He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves. William Makepeace Thackeray brother giving thinking It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray society impossible sometimes Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. William Makepeace Thackeray cutting body bread Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? William Makepeace Thackeray mind kindness men
