Famous Quotes / William Makepeace Thackeray
18 Quotations by William Makepeace Thackeray
- 1. 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
- 2. A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
- 3. A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
- 4. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.
- 5. Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare i ...
- 6. Bravery never goes out of fashion.
- 7. Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
- 8. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon ...
- 9. Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- 10. I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
- 11. If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- 12. If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted ...
- 13. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at ...
- 14. Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dar ...
- 15. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- 16. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to wri ...
- 17. What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the re ...
- 18. Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can ...