400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

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.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.