...the greatest tyrants over women are women. Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Quote More from William Makepeace Thackeray “Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of …” “Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankl…” “But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite …” “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”