William Makepeace Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#lose #love #next #thing #to love

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#flower #had #i #i feel #walk

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #every man #face #gives #glass

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#excellence #next

A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#good laugh #house #laugh #sunshine

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#evil #light #like #never #person

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#i #i am #look #me #paradise

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #fool #handsome #irresistible #ladies

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#know #lying #man #pen #takes