“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
1811 – 1863
English novelist, author of "Vanity Fair".
“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
“When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them.”
“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”
“It is impossible, in our condition of society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
“That which we call a Snob, by any other name would still be Snobbish.”
“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!”
“Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?”
“You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.”
