W M Thackeray Quotes & Sayings

Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters. — David Markson

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease — William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor is wit and love. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Terror attacks in Mumbai have grown due to increase in the population of the north Indians in the city. — Raj Thackeray

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Though small was your allowance,
You saved a little store:
And those who save a little,
Shall get a plenty more. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The Shiv Sena was the handiwork of a cartoonist named Bal Thackeray, whose main target was south Indians, whom he claimed were taking away jobs from the natives. Thackeray lampooned dhoti-clad 'Madrasis' in his writings and drawings; while his followers attacked Udupi restaurants and homes of Tamil and Telugu speakers. — Ramachandra Guha

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

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed. — Sharad Pawar

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is God in the eyes of a child. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. — William Makepeace Thackeray