What did William Makepeace Thackeray mean by: Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India Copy
It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Comfort, Imaginary, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Humanity, Inequality, Perception, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Middle class, Safety, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
+ People hate as they love, unreasonably. Author, September 24, 2023January 2, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hate, Love, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Emotions, Loss, Relationships, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Friendship, Wisdom, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Deception, Gender, Perception, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Makepeace Thackeray, Laughter, 0 William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself. Read explanation Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
