William Makepeace Thackeray People Quotations

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.