Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. - Tennessee Williams
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. - Bible
At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind. - Norman Mailer
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. - Voltaire