The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.
William Makepeace ThackerayThere's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: children childhood fairy-tales upbringing
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 ThackerayTag: love sadness death comfort
I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: love
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: love kittens young-love
It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that there are no race of people who talk about books, or, perhaps, who read books, so little as literary men.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: books society literature
..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers
William Makepeace ThackerayThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace ThackerayNo, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: vanity-fair
Indeed, for my own part, though I have been repeatedly told by persons for whom I have the greatest respect, that Miss Brown is an insignificant chit, and Mrs. White has nothing but her petit minois chiffonne, and Mrs. Black has not a word to say for herself; yet I know that I have had the most delightful conversations with Mrs. Black (of course, my dear Madam, they are inviolable): I see all the men in a cluster round Mrs. White's chair: all the young fellows battling to dance with Miss Brown; and so I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.
William Makepeace ThackerayTag: women
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