Vain Quotes · Page 11

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

— Bob Hope

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

— Lykke Li

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

— George MacDonald

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

— Lionel Shriver

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

— James M. Barrie

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

— Confucius

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully…

— Katherine Mansfield

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse…

— Mike Gravel

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To…

— Lucretius

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by…

— David Hume

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and…

— Blaise Pascal

Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for…

— Chanakya

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between…

— Megan McCafferty

Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you…

— William Ernest Henley

Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then…

— Odilo Globocnik

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors.…

— Henry David Thoreau

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved…

— George Washington

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader…

— Conrad Aiken

It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard…

— William P. Young

Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.

— Stephen Hillenburg

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false warld is but transitory.

— William Dunbar

To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

— Sophocles

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

— Aesop

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

— James McHenry

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is…

— Matthew Arnold

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to…

— William C. Brown

“But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

— Plautus

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe