William Makepeace Thackeray

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#death #love #sadness #death

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends... ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#humor #friendship

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#love #inspirational

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#impossible #our #snob #society #sometimes

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#look #middle-class #must #safety

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#marry #poor #remember #rich #woman

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#book #courts #female #forever #justice

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#children #god #hearts #lips #little

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#him #man #may #strange #think