William Makepeace Thackeray

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#anger

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#soldiers #war #change

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#dishonesty #double-standards #morality #vice #vanity

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#money

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

#relationships #love

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#love #young-love #love

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#daring #persistence #courage

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 ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #vanity #death

I can't help always falling upon it, and cry out with particular loudness and wailing, and become especially melancholy, when I see a dead love tied to a live love. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#love