William Makepeace Thackeray – 10 Quotes

10 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

– William Makepeace Thackeray

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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

– 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

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!

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

– William Makepeace Thackeray

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

– William Makepeace Thackeray