William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
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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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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
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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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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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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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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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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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He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
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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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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.