William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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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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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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A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
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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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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love – business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
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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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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
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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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What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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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.