William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.

He lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, ‘Adsum!’ and fell back… He, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip?

’Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

’Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard, Master Harry – every man of every nation has done that – ’tis the living up to it that is difficult.