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Quotes from The Virginians — William Makepeace Thackeray

1811–1863 England

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13 quotes

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The Virginians (1857)

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.

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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

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

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?

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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.

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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

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I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have even a life-enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease.

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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

The Virginians (1857)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Makepeace Thackeray (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.