William Makepeace ThackerayThinkers

Beauty is not beautiful, but it is only our eyes that make it so.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

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

Gossip is pervasive. Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

Hope is all that is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Humor is one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Jonathan Swift is a monster gibbering shrieks and gnashing imprecations against mankind - tearing down all shreds of modesty, past all sense of manliness and shame: filthy in word, filthy in thought, furious, raging, obscene.

Laughter is sunshine in the house when good.

Life is the soul’s nursery.