William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best thing.
There is a skeleton in every house.
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard.. every man has done that... 'tis the living up to it that is difficult.
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
You read the past in some old faces.
We see flowers of good blooming in foul places.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
He who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
Love is master of the wisest... It is only fools who defy him.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
