People Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

— 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

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are…

— William Makepeace Thackeray