"Ah! but a man cannot be held to write down in cold blood the wild and black thoughts that storm his brain when an unc…"

"It makes your sin no worse, as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly."

"“How can you—how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts?” “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered…"

"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…"

"And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom…"

"If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy."

"Vanity Fair—Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read—who had the habits and the cun…"

"“And for what follows after death,” would Mr. Crawley observe, throwing his gooseberry-coloured eyes up to the ceilin…"

"What is there in a pair of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth? these dear moralists ask, and hint wisely that the gif…"

"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."