Vanity Fair

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or fair:

“Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,—which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)