If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.
MadonnaMots clés may-2008 vanity-fair
I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
Johnny DeppMots clés time interview quote born vanity-fair era magazine-interview
No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love. I will bargain no more: I withdraw.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés vanity-fair
The most satisfying compliment a reader can pay is to tell me that he or she feels personally addressed. Think of your own favorite authors and see if that isn’t precisely one of the things that engage you, often at first without your noticing it. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull or obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.
Christopher HitchensMots clés vanity-fair
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?
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés greatness vanity-fair dullness
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 possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés virtue satire funny social-commentary vanity-fair william-makepeace-thackeray
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés vanity-fair
[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés vanity-fair
I’m always reading books—as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.
Ernest HemingwayMots clés reading books interview vanity-fair
Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.
William Makepeace ThackerayMots clés humour prison funny debt escape vanity-fair
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