William Makepeace Thackeray citáty

„Zasejte skutok a zožeňte návyk, zasejte návyk a zožeňte povahu, zasejte povahu a zožeňte osud.“

„Sú určité sprostosti, ktoré sa mužovi priečia - schopná je ich urobiť len žena, krásna a jemná žena.“

„Nemám nič proti gombíkom. V primeranom množstve.“

„Ak ste si stavali vzdušné zámky, nie je vaša práca stratená, keď pod ne teraz položíte základy.“

„Stretnúť mladý pár takých, ktorí sa skutočne majú radi, je zriedkavé. No stretnúť pár milujúcich sa v pokročilom veku, to je to najkrajšie na svete.“

„Humor je jedným z najlepších kúskov odevu, aký môže človek nosiť do spoločnosti.“

„Ľúbiť a vyhrať je tá najlepšia vec. Ľúbiť a prehrať- druhá najlepšia.“

„Milovať a udržať je najlepšia možnosť; milovať a stratiť je druhá najlepšia možnosť.“

„Na samý vrchol života sa človek dostane odvahou, s ktorou dokáže dôstojne prekonať aj nepekné zážitky.“

„O dobrej nálade možno povedať, že je jedným z najlepších kusov odevu, ktorý môžeme v spoločnosti nosiť.“

„Škaredý a schopný muž má úspech u žien niekedy, kým pekný hlupák je neodolateľný.“

„Vydržať je viac ako trúfať si; unaviť nepriazeň šťasteny; nenechať sa odradiť prekážkami; mať srdce na pravom mieste, aj keď ostatní oň prišli - kto by si nemyslel, že je to veľkolepé?“

“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.”