400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

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

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.