400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.