William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

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.

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

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.

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

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

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

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

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

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

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

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

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

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

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.