400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

Life is the soul's nursery.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.