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 ThackerayMots clés love emotion-life-inspirational
Mother is God in the eyes of a child.
William Makepeace ThackerayFollow your honest convictions, and stay strong.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe 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; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés vanity-fair
He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
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 ThackerayMots clés vanity-fair
The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.′
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés wine henry-esmond marquis thackery
The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.
William Makepeace ThackerayMr 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 ThackerayMots clés humour prison funny debt escape vanity-fair
O blessed idleness! Divine lazy nymph! Reach me a novel as I lie in my dressing-gown at three o'clock in the afternoon; compound a sherry-cobbler for me, and bring me a cigar! Dear slatternly, smiling Enchantress! They may assail thee with bad names—swear thy character away, and call thee the Mother of Evil; but, for all that, thou art the best company in the world!
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