William Makepeace Thackeray: Quotes about life

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“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

Source: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself

Life , Sadness , Lovers , Change

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

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

Life , History

“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/newcm10.txt (1853-1855), Ch. 9.

Life , Pleasure

“Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang,
“Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.””

William Makepeace Thackeray

A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Love , Life , Fools , Wine

“Here was a man who could not spell, and did not care to read — who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but was sordid and soil; and yet he had rank, and honors, and power, somehow: and was dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 9.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

Life , Reading