William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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!”

“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.”