Words matter. These are the best William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
‘Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
