31 Quotations by William M. Thackeray
- 1. A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
- 2. Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means livel ...
- 3. Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
- 4. Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
- 5. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon ...
- 6. Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
- 7. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- 8. I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
- 9. I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- 10. If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- 11. If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted ...
- 12. If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict ...
- 13. It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at ...
- 14. It is from the level of calamities... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
- 15. It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
- 16. It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.
- 17. Mother is the name for God on the lips and in the hearts of little children.
- 18. Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.
- 19. Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
- 20. People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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