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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
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I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
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He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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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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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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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?
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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?
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
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Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.