Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

It flatters his vanity.

Above all, the vanity of many people seems so unbearable because it disturbs the vanity of others.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Her vanity knows no bounds.