Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.