William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Lying

• Hay mil pensamientos dentro de un hombre que no conoce hasta que toma una pluma para escribir.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspiring, Lying, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

• One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Believe, Order

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.141

• When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Acceptance, Deceit

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

• Ser rico, ser famoso? ¿sirven de algo dentro de un año, cuando otros nombres suenen más fuerte que el tuyo, cuando yazcas oculto bajo tierra, junto con los títulos ociosos grabados en tu ataúd? Pero sólo el verdadero amor vive después de ti, sigue tu memoria con bendiciones secretas o te impregna e intercede por ti. Non omnis moriar, si, muriendo, vivo aún en uno o dos tiernos corazones; ni estoy perdido y sin esperanza, viviendo, si un alma santa difunta aún me ama y ruega por mí.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

• ¿Quién de nosotros que tiene treinta años no ha tenido su Pompeya? Bajo las cenizas yace la vida de la juventud: el deporte despreocupado, el placer y la pasión, la alegría querida.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Lying, Passion

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