Famous William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

  • Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? – William Makepeace Thackeray

    Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • People hate as they love, unreasonably. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    People hate as they love, unreasonably.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.– William Makepeace Thackeray

  • A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. – William Makepeace Thackeray

    A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.– William Makepeace Thackeray