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:
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“What says she, fair one? That the tongues of men are full of
deceits?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)