The Bonfire of the Vanities - By Tom Wolfe

1/20/2025

I’ve really enjoyed Tom Wolfe’s out of context quotes in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” thus far:

“Who in the name of God would bring a half-eaten eight-ounce jar of Hellmann’s mayonnaise to a public meeting?”

“Christ almighty! A Master of the Universe couldn’t be a saint, after all…”

“Then he covered the telephone with his hand and looked straight up at the ceiling and said out loud to no one, except Mammon, “The frogs! The [freaking] frogs!”

"A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak."

"She was intoxicated, not by alcohol - alcohol was fattening - but by Society."