William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Today
  • Human
  • Relationships

• You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Commitment

• 'Kepe from haire. Der fevreblau hast bifallen us.'

  

  Connie Willis

• God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Kind

• I was glad I liked chemistry.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Chemistry

• I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Up
  • Business
  • Career

• Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Men
  • True

• Taxpayers need relief, ... Consumer confidence is down, energy prices are up, and economic growth is stagnant. The economy needs a boost, and this tax relief will provide that boost.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Confidence

• As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Light
  • Mean
  • Christian

• It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Men
  • Pleasure
  • Natural

• One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Attempt
  • Calculate
  • Mathematically

• I am not concerned about two successive defeats, ... I am just sad for the players that they haven't got their due rewards.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Players
  • Rewards
  • Defeats

• God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Guilty
  • Wicked

• The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Men
  • Free

• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  

  Peter Murphy Bauhaus
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Romantic

• Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Foolish
  • Vain
  • Wicked