Vanity Fair Magazines/british Vanity Fair 1868-1914

Famous quotes containing the words vanity, fair, magazines and/or british:

    The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
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    “He neither shall be christened
    In white wine or red,
    But with fair spring water,
    With which we were christenèd.”
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    Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
    Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
    Robert Morley (1908–1992)