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
food men thinking
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
faith dying difficult
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
equality gold sticks
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
anniversary husband wife
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
coffee tea doe
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
life habit motive
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
destiny soul training
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
vanity wicked foolish
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
names double-standard world
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
new-year book years
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
blessed men naughty
Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
girl hero opposites
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.
nurse darling
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
ruins easy knows
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.