| A man is inseparable from his congenital vanities and stupidities, as a dog is inseparable from its fleas. |
| It's only when mums and dads dress their offspring as cut-down versions of themselves that those same vanities start to become a little worrying. |
| The poetry of the unimaginative, the passions of the inhibitive, the failing archery of the hunter are wasteful vanities. |
| He only ever sat for the occasional portrait and despised the excesses and vanities of his day. |
| The American presidential election turned out to be a bonfire of the vanities for the acolytes of political correctness. |
| In Dürer, space alone enters into the melancholic awareness of the vanities. |
