William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair Quotes
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...
It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.