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

“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, nothing is fair.”

“The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.”

“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.”