Vain Quotes · Page 11

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

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

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

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

— George Orwell

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

— Brad Alan Lewis

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

— William Shakespeare

I am beginning to think of the human imagination as a fruit machine on which victories are rare and separated by much…

— Philip Larkin

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all…

— Leonardo da Vinci

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against…

— John Milton

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

— Tom Hiddleston

Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,…

— Roger Bannister

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers…

— Anonymous

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved…

— Francesca Woodman

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave…

— Joseph Addison

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

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

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

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with…

— Edmund Spenser

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in…

— Thomas a Kempis

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

— Charles Spurgeon

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing…

— Mary Astell

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

— John Calvin

I used to be terribly vain. I'd spend a lot of time pampering myself and applying make-up and hoping that I'd look…

— Helen Baxendale

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

— Fawad Khan

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest…

— James Sharp

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

— Francis Bacon

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

— Lord Acton

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

— Stendhal

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

— Anthony McCarten

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

— George Linley

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

— Leo Rosten

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

— Tim Kaine

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by…

— Thomas Jefferson