Vanity Fair (magazines)
Vanity Fair has been the title of at least five magazines, including an 1859–1863 American publication, an 1868–1914 British publication, an unrelated 1902–1904 New York magazine, and a 1913–1936 American publication edited by Condé Nast, which was revived in 1983.
Vanity Fair was notably a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub, in the book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Later use of the name was influenced by the well-known 1847–1848 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Read more about Vanity Fair (magazines): American Vanity Fair (1859–1863), British Vanity Fair (1868–1914), Vanity Fair U.S. Magazine 1902–1904, American Vanity Fair 1913–1936, American Vanity Fair 1983–present
Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or fair:
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In glee with sport and thought and lily dance;
And fate in vanity now leaps to chaff
Me smiling at her winking circumstance.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“A man who would woo a fair maid,
Should ‘prentice himself to the trade;
And study all day,
In methodical way,
How to flatter, cajole, and persuade”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)