All William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
- In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. Alone
- If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! Marriages
- ...the greatest tyrants over women are women. Funny
- Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Affect
- Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so… Condescends
- 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… Ah
- Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in… Doubt
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. Called
- Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. All
- The world is good natured to people who are good natured. Good
- Bad husbands will make bad wives. Anniversary
- Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks All
- Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. Difficult
- Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them. Benevolent
- No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. Custom
- 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… Age
- I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year Five
- Humor is wit and love. Humor
- Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… Books
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them… Absolute