The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded ut… - William Makepeace Thackeray

" "
The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank, so that you might write on it to somebody else.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair · April 29, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

English

Collect this quote

About William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English Victorian novelist and illustrator, known for his satirical works.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Pen Names: Michael Angelo Titmarsh • George Fitz-Boodle • Ikey Solomons

All quotes from William Makepeace Thackeray Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like William Makepeace Thackeray:

Samuel Richardson Honoré de Balzac Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens George Eliot

Additional quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

The best ink for Vanity Fair use would be one that faded utterly in a couple of days, and left the paper clean and blank, so that you might write on … - William Makepeace Thackeray

About William Makepeace Thackeray

Also Known As

Additional quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray