Men Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far…

— William Makepeace Thackeray