Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“... I regularly frequent St. George';s, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Mr. Brock’s account of his adventure in London has given the reader some short notice of his friend, Mr Macshane. Neither the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
