He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes From William Makepeace Thackeray What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? William Makepeace Thackeray shelterrocksmen Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. William Makepeace Thackeray richwomenremember A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. William Makepeace Thackeray crowtreebook 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. William Makepeace Thackeray successmenlife To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me. William Makepeace Thackeray heartmemorieslying Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? William Makepeace Thackeray bellssickbrother 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. William Makepeace Thackeray kindkindnessgiving If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations. William Makepeace Thackeray errorsmenworld Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? William Makepeace Thackeray tyrantsmensex The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? William Makepeace Thackeray wickeddoubtfall Humor is wit and love. William Makepeace Thackeray witand-lovehumor To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money! William Makepeace Thackeray husbandwritingyears I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy. William Makepeace Thackeray evilmindlong She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray remembrancepastworld When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. William Makepeace Thackeray deceitacceptancelying Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses! William Makepeace Thackeray eyehairbeautiful Humor is the mistress of tears. William Makepeace Thackeray mistresstearshumor An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. William Makepeace Thackeray wifeintelligenthome Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor. William Makepeace Thackeray trainingfatehonor If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! William Makepeace Thackeray populationwould-bepeople
