More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothin…
  2. I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
  3. Them's my sentiments.
  4. Ah! Vanitas vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us …
  5. If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
  6. Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover; And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
  7. Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
  8. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

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