William Makepeace Thackeray

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and…

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

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

A good laugh is sunshine in the house…

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

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking…

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

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is…

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than…