Vanity Fair Annotated

by William Makepeace Thackeray

any the most squeamish immoralist in Vanity Fair a right to cry fie?

what shall we say, we who have moved among some of the finest company of Vanity Fair, of this refuse and sediment of rascals?

What she had said about hoping that he would not come was all hypocrisy.

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.