Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray

People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
William Makepeace Thackeray

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray