Danh ngôn của William Makepeace Thackeray (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.