Quote

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Calcutta
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Fitz-Boodle
Conquered
Conquer
Women
Like

More quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

Image
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets when the parting look that accompanies Good night! gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Frequent the company of your betters.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
A person can't help their birth.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Kindnesses are easily forgotten but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Image
Titles are abolished and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
William Makepeace Thackeray