Vain Quotes · Page 6

Clichés so often befall vain people.

— Ann Beattie

“How can I shut down If you don't open up??”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain.

— Anonymous

“Sophie Price, you are devastatingly beautiful.”

— Fisher Amelie

And not a vanity is given in vain.

— Alexander Pope

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

— Marianne Williamson

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

— Ben Jonson

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

— Julian Tuwim

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.

— John Frederick Boyes

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

— Lena Dunham

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

— Epicurus

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I…

— Doug Rice

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we…

— Marcel Proust

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

— Jean de la Bruyere

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt…

— Confucius

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

I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want…

— Jarvis Cocker

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

If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass…

— Adam Sedgwick

So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror.…

— John F. Kennedy

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,…

— Michael Ondaatje

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What…

— Swami Vivekananda

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the…

— Chinua Achebe

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,…

— George Crabbe

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.…

— Edmund Spenser

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If…

— Benjamin Franklin

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

— Agesilaus II

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

— Hadewijch

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

— Tycho Brahe

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

— Carly Simon

“From sweat to vein nothing was in vain.”

— Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

— Herman Melville

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

— Isaac of Nineveh