"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation."

"It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is "lighter than vanity.""

"'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone — man with his …"

"Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Chri…"

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

"That they may not become too complacent or delighted in married life, he makes them distressed by the shortcomings of…"

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."

"Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and…"

"That was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me."

"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."