"

Heaven help us! The girls have only to turn the tables,and say of one of their own sex,'She is as vain as a man,' and they will have perfect reason. T...more

"

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

"

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

"

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

"

If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can p...more

"

he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards would never have dared to insult me.” She thought abou...more

"

Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in li...more