William Makepeace Thackeray said this quote

“ 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. ”

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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray