William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
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Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love – business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
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Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.