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
appreciation heart mean
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.
yield world sometimes
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
beauty beautiful eye
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
heaven coquette bless
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
beautiful eye hair
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!
opportunity vanity feelings
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
evil long mind
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
journey men names
So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
lambs lions world
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
beautiful rose demand
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
expectations persons
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
charming peacemaker
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
success men quality
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
vanity looks preacher
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.