Vanity Fair Quotes

Maria Osborne: George is engaged. It's understood.
Mr. Osborne: And it can be un-understood.

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Amelia Sedley: This is all just a blessing in disguise
Becky Sharp: Well, the disguise is convincing

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Becky Sharp: Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.
Rawdon Crawley: I should. I traveled it with you.
Becky Sharp: Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.
Rawdon Crawley: Then that has been your misfortune.
Rawdon Crawley: [pauses]
Rawdon Crawley: Goodbye Rebecca. [leaves]
Becky Sharp: [screams in despair]

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George Osborne: [as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?
Becky Sharp: My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.
George Osborne: You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.
Becky Sharp: Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.
George Osborne: How very obliging of you.
Becky Sharp: I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather? [George remains silent and stern]
Becky Sharp: Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.

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Mrs. Sedley: I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer

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