“If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“All this world's glory seemeth vain to me, And all their shows but shadows, saving she.” — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity.… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and… — Hannah Woolley Copy Share Image
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues -… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust… — Jack London Copy Share Image
