William M Thackeray Love Quotes and Sayings, Photo credit: Wikiquote
William M Thackeray Love Quotes and Sayings
#1 The History of Pendennis
1. As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
#2 Chapter IV, The History Of Pendennis [S]
2. …love makes fools of us all, big and little…
#3 Chapter VI, The History Of Pendennis [S]
3. It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
#4 CHAPTER XI, The History of Henry Esmond [S]
4. 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.
#5 CHAPTER LXVI: IN WHICH THE COLONEL AND THE NEWCOME ATHENÆUM ARE BOTH LECTURED, The Newcomes [S]
5. If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
#6 On Letts’s Diary, Roundabout papers [S]
6. Those who are gone you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.
#7 SAMARITANS, The Virginians [S]
7. But love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone.
#8 Chapter XX: FACILIS DESCENSUS, The Virginians [S]
8. When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
#9 CECILIA’S SUCCESSOR, LOVEL THE WIDOWER [S]
9. …we are most of us very lonely in the world. You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.
#10 CHAPTER XXV: INFASDl DOLORES, The adventures of Philip on his way through the world [S]
10. The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
William Makepeace Thackeray. Steel engraving, published by Smith, Elder & Co, Photo credit: Wikiquote
Sayings by William Makepeace Thackeray
#1 The history of Henry Esmond [S]
1. As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write, so the heart is a secret even to him (or her) who has it in his own breast.
#2 CHAPTER XCII. Under Vine and Fig-Tree, The Virginians [S]
2. To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained—who can say this is not greatness
#3 CHAPTER II, Vanity Fair [S]
3. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you: laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
#4 CHAPTER IV: YAUXHALL, Vanity Fair [S]
4. Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
#5 CHAPTER XIX, Vanity Fair [S]
5. Praise everybody, I say to such: never be squeamish, but speak out your compliment both point-blank in a man’s face, and behind his back, when you know there is a reasonable chance of his hearing it again. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
#6 CHAPTER XXXVII, Vanity Fair [S]
6. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children…
#7 ON TAILORING-AND TOILETTES IN GENERAL, Sketches and travels in London; Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1811-1863 [S]
7. What is wanted for the nonce, is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanour; so that good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society…
#8 LOVE, MARRIAGE, MEN, AND WOMEN, Sketches and travels in London; Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 1811-1863 [S]
8. Life without laughing is a dreary blank. A woman who cannot laugh is a wet blanket on the kindly nuptial couch. A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
#9 Dennis Haggarty’s Wife, Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, Volume 4, J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1866 [S]
9. How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a personage can no more see his own folly than he can see his own ears.
#10 CHAPTEE XXXVI: A CHAPTER OF MATCH-MAKING, The History Of Pendennis [S]
10. 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 lips, though they cannot speak.
#11 CHAPTER XXIII, The Adventures of Philip on his way through the World [S]
11. Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
#12 CHAPTER V: CONTAINS A GREAT DEAL OF COMPLICATED LOVE-MAKING, A Shabby Genteel Story, The adventures of Philip on his way through the world [S]
12. When Fate wills that something should come to puss, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
#13 THORNS IN THE CUSHION, ROUNDABOUT PAPERS [S]
13. Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion. Out of mere malignity, I suppose, there is no man who would like to make enemies.
#14 On Friendship, Sketches and travels in London; Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo [S]
14. Let us be very gentle with our neighbours’ failings; and forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
#15 THE BACHELOR OF BEAK STREET, Lovel the Widower [S]
15. If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.