Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
“If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.”
“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”
“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise. ”
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”
“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”
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