“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 and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men — more so, if possible.”

“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

“Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.”

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

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

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”

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

“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.”

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