William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Humor is the mistress of tears.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sports
  • Beat
  • Competitors

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Great
  • Power
  • Science

• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Goodness
  • Which

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Philosophy

• I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Character
  • Hurt
  • Villain

• There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • High
  • Head
  • Count

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• You can't take good health for granted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Health
  • Good Health

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• 'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Film
  • Remade
  • Lisa

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Effort
  • Be kind

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • People
  • Strong
  • Vulnerable

• As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand

• Humor is the mistress of tears.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Tears
  • Humor
  • Mistress