William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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

~ William Makepeace Thackeray