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Now they heap the funeral pyre, And the torch of death they light; Ah! 'tis hard to die by fire!
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
By William Makepeace Thackeray
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
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 -- who can say this is not greatness
By William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
By William Makepeace Thackeray