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
anniversary husband wife
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
nurse darling
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
oysters sauce bread
I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.
equality differences meanness
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
bitterness use feels
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?
mistress affection easy
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
cheating fall men
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
half sauce fine-words
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.
ears cotton stuff
He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
ears fool flattery
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
marriage opportunity may
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
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.
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
beauty clever successful
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.