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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 5

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.264

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.103, Diversion Books

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Oxford Thackeray: With Illustrations”, p.989

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.6, Booklassic

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.152

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.101

You read the past in some old faces.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.151