400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.

Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.

Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

The best of women are hypocrites.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.