Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old William Makepeace Thackeray quotes, William Makepeace Thackeray sayings, and William Makepeace Thackeray proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Vanity is often the unseen spur.William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.William Makepeace Thackeray
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.William Makepeace Thackeray
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The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.William Makepeace Thackeray
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.William Makepeace Thackeray
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.William Makepeace Thackeray
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.William Makepeace Thackeray
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.William Makepeace Thackeray
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.William Makepeace Thackeray
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.William Makepeace Thackeray
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a snob.William Makepeace Thackeray
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A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better especially richer or more fashionable than he is.William Makepeace Thackeray
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind wordWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
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Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!William Makepeace Thackeray
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.William Makepeace Thackeray
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As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.William Makepeace Thackeray
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Life is the soul's nursery - Its training place for the destinies of eternity.William Makepeace Thackeray
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That I may reach that happy time / The kindly gods I pray, / For are not ducks and pease in prime / Upon the last of May?William Makepeace Thackeray