You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless.… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds… — Chris Sligh Copy Share Image
“Words do less than 10 things, but actions do more than 10 thousand things. Leaders don’t talk in vain; they follow with actions.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.) A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the… — Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary Copy Share Image
Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished,… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be… — William Penn Copy Share Image
