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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: inspirational



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People hate as they love, unreasonably.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: love hate



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I would rather make my name then inherit it.

William Makepeace Thackeray


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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: liars-falsehood-hatred



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if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

William Makepeace Thackeray


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I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: humor vanity



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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: women alcohol



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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: life death vanity



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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Stichwörter: love war soldiers



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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

William Makepeace Thackeray


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