The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
Michel de Montaigne
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
Lord Mountbatten