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Vanity Fair é um filme britânico de drama mudo de 1922 dirigido por Walter Courtney Rowden e estrelado por Clive Brook, Cosmo Kyrle Bellew e Douglas Munro. Uma adaptação do romance de 1848 Vanity Fair de William Makepeace Thackeray, foi feito como parte da série de filmes "Tense Moments with Great Authors Series". Elenco parcial Clive Brook - Rawdon Crawley Douglas Munro - Marquis of Staines Henry Doughty - Mr. Wenham Kyrle Bellew - Becky Sharp Referências Links externos

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Notable quotes

“Profoundly grateful, and as if I had swallowed a small baby. … Why, they are perfect beasts of oysters!”
— Thackeray's reply when asked how he felt upon eating an unusually large American oyster during his first visit to the United States (1852–3); reported in James Grant Wilson, Thackeray in the United States: 1852–3, 1855–6 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), pp. 81–82.
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
— Ch. 2: "The Snob Royal"
“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”
— Ch. 40.
“The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?”
— Ch. 20.
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
— Ch. 61.
“Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.”
— "On Letts's Diary", p. 292.

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