| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.122 | Shall tax my fears of little vanity, | Shall taze my feares of little vanitie, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.82 | vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity | vanity, I wold thou and I knew, where a Commodity |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.442 | that Father Ruffian, that Vanity in years? Wherein is he | that Father Ruffian, that Vanitie in yeeres? wherein is he |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.33 | for you! Here's no vanity! I am as hot as molten lead, | for you: here's no vanity, I am as hot as molten Lead, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.105 | If I were much in love with vanity. | If I were much in loue with Vanity. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.120 | Harry the Fifth is crowned! Up, vanity! | Henry the fift is Crown'd: Vp Vanity, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.130 | Hath proudly flowed in vanity till now. | Hath prowdly flow'd in Vanity, till now. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.130 | As matching to his youth and vanity, | To that end, as matching to his Youth and Vanitie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.85 | For this great journey. What did this vanity | For this great Iourney. What did this vanity |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.92 | Away, loose silks of wavering vanity! | A way loose silkes or wauering vanitie, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.13 | O vanity of sickness! Fierce extremes | Oh vanity of sicknesse: fierce extreames |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.33 | King, and take Vanity the puppet's part against the | King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, against the |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.164 | O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools! | Oh heauen, the vanity of wretched fooles. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.21 | let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You | let that appeare when there is no need of such vanity, you |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.163 | Not the world's mass of vanity could make me. | Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.24 | Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity – | Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.38 | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, | Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.96 | To stay him from the fall of vanity; | To stay him from the fall of Vanitie: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.178 | O heavy lightness, serious vanity, | O heauie lightnesse, serious vanity, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.20 | And yet not fall. So light is vanity. | And yet not fall, so light is vanitie. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.41 | Some vanity of mine art. It is my promise, | Some vanity of mine Art: it is my promise, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.129 | Hoyday, what a sweep of vanity comes this way! | Hoyday, / What a sweepe of vanitie comes this way. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.155 | That woo the wills of men to vanity | That wooe the wils of men to vanity, |