William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Best
  • Wine
  • Champagne

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Management
  • WIld

• As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Solution

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Kind

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Feels
  • Scary

• I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Think
  • Opinion

• In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Artist
  • Eye
  • Painting

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Beautiful
  • Eye
  • Beauty