I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
William Makepeace ThackerayTo be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
William Makepeace ThackerayOh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
William Makepeace ThackerayPerhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
William Makepeace Thackeray