"Vanity Fair" Quotes

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

In this world, women are looked upon as servants and playthings.

It is only the rich who can afford to be philosophical.

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

A conquered cynicism was even more unbearable than triumphant prosperity.

For, my dear, we may say that there is no such thing as a self-made woman.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!

There are good and bad people in both rings.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate.

Those who know the world understand that defeat is due oftentimes to a very slight and easily overlooked cause.