Top 15 William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

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 shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.