William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Old Friends, Scandal

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

• If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Temptation, Neighbor, Accounts

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.377

• As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Character, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. The memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo”, p.30

• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Forgiving, Debt, Failing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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