Ez a történet nem érte el célját, ha az olvasó nem vette észre, hogy az őrnagy fajankó volt. - William Makepeace Thackeray

When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she is to herself.

But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has ‘Vanity Fair’ for a title, and that Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.