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“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise. ”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“People hate as they love, unreasonably.”
― William M. Thackeray

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“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.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Bravery never goes out of fashion. ”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Four Georges and the English Humourists

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.”
― W. Thackeray

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“I would rather make my name then inherit it. ”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A person can't help their birth. ”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
― William Thackeray