Top 7 Vanitatum Quotes

#1. A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Aphra Behn

#2. Maybe that's all real love was--just something that happened quickly and vanished, a kind of gesture to a stranger or a fleeting moment of passion.

Steffan Piper

#3. 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

#4. The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Edmund Burke

#5. I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

Robert James Thomson

#6. 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

#7. In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

Roger Mudd

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