If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray More Quotes From William Makepeace Thackeray Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. William Makepeace Thackeray cleversweetmen Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. William Makepeace Thackeray new-yearbookyears When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. William Makepeace Thackeray connectedlovemen Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue. William Makepeace Thackeray mencheatingfall Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.' William Makepeace Thackeray yieldbrothergames We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean. William Makepeace Thackeray viewsmeanlooks Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal. William Makepeace Thackeray divinityaffectionlife What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? William Makepeace Thackeray lavenderfavourheart For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. William Makepeace Thackeray moralmenbelieve The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. William Makepeace Thackeray inferiorspleasurelife If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? William Makepeace Thackeray bitternessusefriendship Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat. William Makepeace Thackeray scandalold-friendsmean You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob. William Makepeace Thackeray snobjudgingshows Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? William Makepeace Thackeray chaptersseemslittles Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? William Makepeace Thackeray serpentparadisehappiness We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God. William Makepeace Thackeray lonelylonelinessfriendship Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne. William Makepeace Thackeray time-passestime Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled. William Makepeace Thackeray vanityfeelingsopportunity If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. William Makepeace Thackeray handsomeapolloson It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. William Makepeace Thackeray friendsheartfriendly
