Vanity Fair (1848) (edit title/settings)

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Monday, October 31, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “"I can endure poverty, but not shame--neglect but not insult; and insult from--from you."”Becky (Rebecca) Sharp

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Monday, October 31, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “The best of women... are hypocrites. We don't know how much they hide from us.”

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Thursday, October 6, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “Are there not little chapters in everybody's life that seem to be nothing and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Monday, October 3, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Monday, October 3, 2011.

• Edited a quotation: “Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.”Miss RebeccaBecky (Rebecca) Sharp

walaakongkwenta edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Monday, October 3, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.”Miss Rebecca

Linda C edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Friday, January 28, 2011.

• Edited a quotation: “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. <Thackeray>{Thackeray}”

Linda C edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Friday, January 28, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “The fact is, it was a triumph of British diplomacy: the French party having proposed and tried their utmost to carry a marriage with a princess of the house of Potztausend-Donnerwetter; whom, as a matter of course, we opposed.”
• Added a quotation: “I defy any one to say that our Becky, who has certainly some vices, has not been presented to the public in a perfectly genteel and inoffensive manner. In describing this siren, singing and smiling, coaxing and cajoling, the author, with modest pride, asks his readers all round, has he once forgotten the laws of politeness, and showed the monster's hideous tail above wqater? No! Those who like may peep down under waves that are pretty transparent, and see it writhing and twirling, diabolically hideous and slimy, flapping amongst bones, or curling round corpses; but above the water line, I ask, has not everything been proper, agreeable, and decorous, and has any the most squeamish immoralist in Vanity Fair a right to cry fie?”

Linda C edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Friday, January 28, 2011.

• Edited a quotation: “'You don't know anything about business, my dear,' answered <Emmy's>{Emmy's} sire, shaking his head with an important air. And it must be confessed that on this point Emmy was very ignorant, and that it is a pity some people are so knowing.”

Linda C edited the memorable quotes of Vanity Fair Friday, January 28, 2011.

• Added a quotation: “Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. <Thackeray>”
• Added a quotation: “We are Turks with the affections of our women: and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks {Islamic veils covering the face}. But their souls must be seen by only one man, and they obey not unwillingly, and consent to remain at home as our slaves -- ministering to us and doing drudgery for us.”
• Added a quotation: “'You don't know anything about business, my dear,' answered <Emmy's> sire, shaking his head with an important air. And it must be confessed that on this point Emmy was very ignorant, and that it is a pity some people are so knowing.”