Vanitas Vanitatum Quotes

#1. Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

Frederick Locker-Lampson

#2. Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#3. The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation.

Michael Kumhof

#4. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed

Gayle Forman

#5. England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286

Margaret Drabble

#6. The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Thomas Brooks

#7. Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

George R R Martin