Quotes from William Thackeray

Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?

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

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

Have you ever had a difference with a dear friend? How his letters, written in the period of love and confidence, sicken and rebuke you! What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! What lying epitaphs they make over the corpse of love! What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! Most of us have got or written drawers full of them. They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.