William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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 greatest tyrants over women are women.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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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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The best of women are hypocrites.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.
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There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.
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We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
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That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
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Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
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She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.
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As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.