400 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody