Vanity Fair Quotes

“If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:money eyes

“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:honesty

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

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:hate lie

“the moral world . . . has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:doubt

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:vanity

“I should like to know what well-constituted mind, merely because it is transitory, dislikes roast beef?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:food

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