Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.