Famous quotes containing the word makepeace:
“If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)