Vain Quotes · Page 19

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

— Julio Cortazar

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

— Anonymous

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

— Carlos Castaneda

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

— Philip Sidney

It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

— William Shakespeare

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

— Ezra Taft Benson

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

— Hermann Hesse

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to…

— William Shakespeare

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater…

— Joseph Addison

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age…

— John Dryden

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a…

— Padma Lakshmi

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou…

— Francis Quarles

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us…

— Samuel Johnson

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I…

— Andrew Motion

Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was…

— Pierre Boulle

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to…

— Henry David Thoreau

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from…

— Anonymous

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced…

— Galileo Galilei

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many…

— Immanuel Kant

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

— Helen Maria Williams

If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

— William Penn

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

— Gwen Stefani

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

— H. G. Wells

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

— Michel Foucault

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

— Blaise Pascal

I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance.

— Tony Hadley

How happy the lover, How easy his chain, How pleasing his pain, How sweet to discover He sighs not in vain.

— John Dryden

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

— Ben Jonson

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

— Voltaire

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

— Danny Glover

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

— William Butler Yeats

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

— Benjamin Franklin

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

— Edmund Waller