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Your Quotes for 18 July 2005 - Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta on this day in 1811, his father worked there for the East India Company. After his father's death, the family returned to England and William was educated at Charterhouse at London and Trinity College, Cambridge, although he never completed a degree. He studied law for two years, but never practiced, then studied art at Paris before finally settling in as a journalist and novelist. He wrote prolifically, under his own name as well as such charming pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and George Savage FitzBoodle. Like his friend and rival Charles Dickens, he gained popularity with his novels running as serials in the newspapers. Much of his work accurately depicted, and viciously skewered, the upper class of Victorian England.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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

Life is the soul's nursery - its training place for the destinies of eternity.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
     - All from William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863

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