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.”

“if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!”

“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”

“Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed”

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”

“I would rather make my name then inherit it. ”

“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; and so let all young persons take their choice.”

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”

“There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.”

“Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.”

“I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love.”

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

“What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!”

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”

“Bravery never goes out of fashion. ”

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

“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”

“She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.”

“Dalam pesona persahabatan, orang yang biasanya tidak menonjolkan diri bisa menjadi berani, yang pemalu menjadi percaya diri, yang pemalas menjadi giat, yang tidak sabar dan banyak gerak menjadi hati-hati dan tenang.”

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”

“A person can't help their birth. ”

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise. ”

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”

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

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”

“It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all”

“If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...”

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

“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”