“Vanity is my favourite sin.”

“[In answer to Glenn Cook] My favourite sport is men, and my favourite food is whisky.”

“ We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity. ”

“Gibson Goode to Archy: "You're just being stubborn now. Stubbornness in the service of a mistaken notion is a vanity and a sin.”

“They are all my favourites. All of them.”

“It is sadly true that most institutions and nations admire and reward sins of the "spirit," and various forms of arrogance and greed often lead to promotions and praise. But pride, ambition, and vanity are still pride, ambition, and vanity; they do not stop being capital sins because someone is pope or president. "Greed is good" in America, extravagant bonuses are envied and imitated, and careerism is rampant among the clergy . . . Sins of the flesh, however, carry shame and guilt and can always be used to bring anybody down in church, culture, or the state.”