William Makepeace Thackeray citáty

„Humor je jedním z nejlepších kusů oděvů, jaký člověk může ve společnosti nosit.“

„Škaredý a schopný muž má u žen úspěch jen někdy, ale hezký hlupák je neodolatelný.“

„Svět je zrcadlo. Mračte se do něho a bude se na vás také mračit, zasmějte se a bude vám veselým a laskavým společníkem.“

„Zasejte skutek a klidíte návyk, zasejte návyk a sklidíte povahu, zasejte povahu a sklidíte osud.“

„Jsou určité sprostoty, které se muži příčí - je jich schopna jen žena, krásná a jemná žena.“

„Říkejte si co chcete, ale má-li být dobré jméno člověka zahanbeno, nikdo to neprovede tak dobře jako příbuzní.“

„Nemám nic proti knoflíkum. V přiměřeném množství.“

„Byla od přírody žárlivá, což jest jedna z hlavních vlastností pořádné ženské.“

„Vousatí tvorové jsou zrovna tak chtiví chvály, zrovna tak fintiví ve svém oblékání, zrovna tak pyšní na své osobní přednosti, zrovna tak vědomí své přitažlivosti, jako kterákoliv koketa na světě.“

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.”

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“People hate as they love, unreasonably.”

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

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

“This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.”

“… the greatest tyrants over women are women.”

“it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody”

“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.”

“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”

“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.”

“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”

“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!”

“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”

“Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little”

“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”

“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”

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

“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.”

“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”

“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”

“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 shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”