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
humor and-love wit
Humor is wit and love.
husband writing years
To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!
fate past destiny
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
friends heart friendly
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
friendship lonely loneliness
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
grace faces form
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
health men air
Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
happiness paradise serpent
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
heart stones written
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
journalism chairs editorials
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
love fun truth-is
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
love love-is glory
True love is better than glory.
heart pity
Almost all women have hearts full of pity.
names snobbish snob
That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.