“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”
“All is vanity, nothing is fair.”
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away....the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.”
“You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.”
“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for his vanity.”