Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
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
Great
Unalterably
Dulness
Contented
Contentment
Quality
More quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
William Makepeace Thackeray
All is vanity, look you and so the preacher is vanity too.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
William Makepeace Thackeray
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
William Makepeace Thackeray
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We are most of us very lonely in this world you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
William Makepeace Thackeray
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
William Makepeace Thackeray
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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
What, indeed, does not that word cheerfulness imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition it means humility and charity it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A person can't help their birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
William Makepeace Thackeray
