Books Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers,…

— Blaise Pascal

“and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all…

— John Bunyan

“vanity, vanity, all is vanity”

— Ecclesiastes 7:5

“[Vanity's] an unrecognized form of stupidity... you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and…

— Pascal Mercier

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Vanity is of no value”

— Anonymous

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read…

— Blaise Pascal

“Then I saw in my Dream, that when they were got out of the Wilderness, they presently saw a Town before them, and the…

— John Bunyan