WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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

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

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

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

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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