William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

A clever ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears such as your end brother reader will never inspire.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a snob.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

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.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

As the gambler said of his dice to love and win is the best thing to love and lose is the next best.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Malice is of the boomerang character and is apt to turn upon the projector.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Oh my young friends how delightful is the beginning of a love business and how undignified sometimes the end

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better especially richer or more fashionable than he is.