William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
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Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
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All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
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If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
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I would rather make my name than inherit it.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.
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The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
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When men see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
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The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.