Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.

... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers

And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Mother is God in the eyes of a child.

Lumea e o oglinda care ofera inapoi fiecaruia reflectia propriului chip. Daca te incrunti se incrunta si ea inapoi spre tine, daca razi devine si ea o companie vesela si placuta

His first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now!

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?