Vanity Fair

Famous quotes containing the words vanity and/or fair:

“Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)