Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Fitz-Boodle
Seen
Acting
Painters
Actors
Engaged
Play
Painter
Much
Profession
Always
Loving
Men
Except
Life
Perhaps
More quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Sure, love vincit omnia is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is the soul's nursery.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
William Makepeace Thackeray
