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

• If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.

  

  Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
  • Opportunity
  • Enough
  • Helping

• Lend less than you owe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lend

• Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

  

  William Dunbar
  • World
  • Glory
  • Vain

• Charm her into agreeing to have sex with him, and in the morning she’d hate him for taking advantage of her sensual weakness when her heart wasn’t at all in it. But, mostly, she’d end up hating herself for being weak, and foolish, and for not guarding her heart and her body better.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Advantage
  • Weakness
  • Heart

• 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