William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
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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.
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Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
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I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.
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A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
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What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
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You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?