William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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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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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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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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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 a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
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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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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
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How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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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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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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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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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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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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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.
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You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
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A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.