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I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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

Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

Vanity, like murder, will out.

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

Vanity is as ill as ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!

Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

We say little if not egged on by vanity.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

And not a vanity is given in vain.

Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.

Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way!

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.