Quotes By Author: william makepeace thackeray

“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.”

“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; … a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.”

“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”

“Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.”

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

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