Vanity Fair Novel Quotes & Sayings

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements. — Richard Rhodes

That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out. — Vladimir Nabokov

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. [as they realise their problems could be worse!] — Joseph Addison

read the state of the art, the rest of inspiration — Art Opportunities

Sadan was so...beautiful. There seemed no other word for him, even if he had proved to be an ass and deserved to die in lakes of his own blood. — J.C. Owens

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head. — Izabella Scorupco

A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet. — Rudyard Kipling

When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts. — Lao-Tzu

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that. — Tim Howard

Do you know that when a man becomes old, he begins to remember what he believed in as a child and it all comes back to him? — Douglas Clegg

My part in AC/DC is just adding the color on top. — Angus Young

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota