Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are...

#Age, #Funny

And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers...

#Women

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman

#Men And Women

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year

#Men And Women

Humor is wit and love.

#Humor

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration,...

#Books

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

#Children, #God

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

#William Makepeace Thackeray

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

#Hate

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

#William Makepeace Thackeray

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking...

#William Makepeace Thackeray

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

#William Makepeace Thackeray