William Makepeace Thackeray Friends Quotations

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

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.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody