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We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world.... It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-h...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. "De Juventute," The Roundabout Papers (1863).
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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and rec...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. "George the Third," The Four Georges (1855).
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''Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. Lovel the Widower, ch. 1 (1860).
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''Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. Lovel the Widower, ch. 6 (1860).
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Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbour is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper ex...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. "On a Hundred Years Hence," The Roundabout Papers (1863).
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''It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. Pendennis, ch. 6 (1848-1850).
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''In the woods of Powhatan,
Still 'tis told by Indian fires
How a daughter of their sires
Saved a captive Englishman.''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British novelist. Pocahontas (l. 29-32). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubled...
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''Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! 'tis hard to die by fire!''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British novelist. Pocahontas (l. 9-11). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleda...
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We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio propensities, and intolerable vanity about la France, la gloire, l'Empereur, and the like; and yet I think in my heart that the British S...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British novelist. The Book of Snobs, ch. 22 (1848).
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''It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.''
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. The Book of Snobs, ch. 3 (1848).
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