Famous Quotes / William M. Thackeray
31 Quotations by William M. Thackeray
- 21. People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
- 22. The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things ne ...
- 23. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- 24. There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true p ...
- 25. Those who forget their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
- 26. To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to k ...
- 27. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
- 28. We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what ...
- 29. What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the re ...
- 30. When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
- 31. Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can ...