If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace ThackerayI never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
William Makepeace Thackerayit is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
William Makepeace ThackerayIt is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace ThackerayYoung ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray