Who said "Vanity, vanity! Thy name is Woman"?

Question

Who said "Vanity, vanity! Thy name is Woman"? Sounds Biblical or Shakespearean but does anyone have the real attribute?

Also, can anyone give me the attribute for the following dialogue:-
"Tell me, for whom doth the bell toll?"
"My friend, it tolls for thee. It tolls for thee."

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Answer 1

"Vanity, thy name is woman" usually attributed to Shakespeare. But the line in Hamlet is "Frailty, thy name is woman!" Hamlet (I, ii, 146) which Hamlet says because he is mad at his mother for remarrying his father's brother within a month of his father's death.

"For whom the bell tolls..." John Donne (1572-1631), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII: Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris:

"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that.

Laziness, thy name is, Celtish?

Answer 2

"Frailty, Thy Name is Woman" is the Shakespearean quote from Hamlet you are talking about - when Hamlet is railing against Gertrude - his mother - who married his Uncle so quickly after his father - The King's - death. You really need to get your quotes and Shakespeare plays sorted out don't you? This is the second time! hehe j/k edit: I think men and women are equally self centred or conceited depending on the individual and it is simply that women have been conditioned that their beauty rituals are acceptable - expected - and society champions and encourages them. edit #2: @ TheVoice: Narcissus never existed. It is irrelevant to GWS debates that a story was written whereby a man happened to be narcissistic. It has no relevance whatsoever any more than my citing Lady Macbeth as 'evil' reflects on all women. edit#3 KnowItAll: I would have to differ with you on a point: Although at one level Shakespeares plays were written to entertain the masses and the courts - they were constructed so that on deeper study and reflection the plays etc were indeed seen to be deeply philosophical and offered considerable insight into the reality of the human condition albeit through poetry and prose. All great writers are said to use their skills to emphasise aspects of the human condition and serve it up in a way that is pallatable. To Know It All: Understood. Shirley you can't be calling me a thespian? I'm a homosapien to be sure.

Answer 3

Thy Name Is Woman

Answer 4

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Vanity, thy name is a book, "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray written in 1853.

Answer 5

Shakespeare never wrote the line "Vanity, thy name is woman." Hamlet's line reads, "Frailty, thy name is woman," in relation to his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius after the King's death.

It is misquoted, could be the author is anonymous

I edit later, for the other quotes, as I should be working! (lol)

Oh I see someone answered in the mean time. Ok so I would have to work at the end

Answer 6

Actually, it was Hamlet who said, "Frailty (not vanity), thy name is woman," referring to his mother, Gertrude.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

"Ask not 'for whom the bell tolls' it tolls for thee" - pretty sure that's Ernest Hemmingway.

And Shakespeare didn't say that but everyone assumes he did because it's so true, rigjt?

Answer 9

Whoever said it, said the troooth.

Answer 10

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