Quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray

Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

True love is better than glory.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

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