William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

“the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean-stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:lovewomen

“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:loverelationship

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:lovewomenmarriage

“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:lifepast

“Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:happinesspleasure

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:happinessworlddesire

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:truth

“assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:womenhate

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:womenmenhurting

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:womenwealth