William Makepeace Thackeray
"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
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"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."
"من المحال، في حال مجتمعنا هذا، ألا تكون متغطرسًا أحيانًا."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."
"عندما أسير معك، أشعر وكأنني أحمل زهرةً في عروة سترتي."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"عندما تنظر إليّ، عندما تفكر بي، أكون في جنة."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."
"صُنِعَ العَشاءُ للأكلِ لا للحديث."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."
"الضحكة الصادقة شمسٌ تشرق في أرجاء الدار."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"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."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."
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."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, 5 And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sigh’d and pin’d and ogled, And his passion boil’d and bubbled, 10 Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, 15 Went on cutting bread and butter."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?"
William Makepeace Thackeray
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