William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeraywas an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1811
kindness giving kind
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
book passion justice
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
women remember rich
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
promise despair dinner
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
wise sweet eye
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.
dirty naughty light
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
patience wisdom ambition
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
home parent kind
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
affair blind kitten
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
heart uniforms lovers
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
rich-or-poor ugly handsome
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
drinking character alcohol
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
heart differences deuces
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
reflection men glasses
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.