“Vanity. What's wrong with vanity? It doesn't satisfy.”

“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

“It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.”

“All is vanity, you know, ALL in the long run is but vanity and vexation of spirit.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.”

“It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.”

“Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I deserved a better life than this.”

“Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the "vanity of vanities" proclaimed by the Preacher.”

“No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.”