Quotes by : William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain....

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.....

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called....

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children and here was one who was worshipping....

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible.....

To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely....

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and....