Quotes on Vanity Fair

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

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!