William Makepeace Thackeray quotes

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace Thackeray
As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!
William Makepeace Thackeray
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I would rather make my name than inherit it. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray