Book: Vanity fair. Page 3

To always be right, always go ahead, nothing doubting, - with the help of these qualities, stupidity rules the world.

Women easily put up with stupidity in the man.

Is life any of us don't date short Chapter, seem a mere trifle, but influencing the whole future course of events?

But as the Duchess of X. held in England only twenty years old, she didn't understand any English words...

... after all, novelists have the gift of omniscience.

O women! They're baby-sitting and tinkering with their hunches and lovingly worn with the darkest thoughts, as mothers with crippled children.

Fresh air and fun are the most amazing tools that know medicine.

War imposes a tribute to all equally: men are paying the price with blood, women's tears.

Remorse is the least effective of the moral feelings of man: if they awaken, to crush them easier.

Think, what right have you to despise, - you, whose virtue, but the absence of temptation, whose success, perhaps, is a matter of chance, whose high position is the merit of a distant ancestor, whose well-being is, in all probability, - a cruel joke of fate.

If we knew what others think of us our close friends and dear relatives, life would lose all charm and all the time we would have been in unbearable sadness and fear.

When one person is extremely obliged to another, and then to quarrel with him, the common sense of decency makes him more to be at enmity with his former friend and benefactor, than if it were completely compromised.

The best of women are hypocrites.. We don't know how much they hide from us; how watchful they are when we seem to be openhearted and trusting; how often their angelic smiles that don't cost them any labor to be simply a trap to flatter the man, to get around it and disarm, I did not speak about the note coquettes, but on our rough matrons, these examples of female virtue. Who has not seen his wife hides from all the stupidity the fool-husband or calms the rage of its excessively radiated to the Lord? We take this kind to us slavery for granted and praise for him; we call this hypocrisy pretty true. The good wife and mistress - of necessity a liar.

Any woman, if she is not hopeless, the hunchback, under favorable conditions, will be able to marry a person you like.