William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeraywas an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1811
coffee tea doe
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
couple sight age
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
food men thinking
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
equality gold sticks
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
vanity wicked foolish
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
names double-standard world
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
doubt quality world
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
sweet morning giving
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
rich-or-poor ugly handsome
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
life-is pleasure where-you-are
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
lying acceptance deceit
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.
beautiful art stars
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
helping birth persons
A person can't help their birth.
eye different different-values
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.