flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me . How is… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.' — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Do my questions annoy you?” He glanced at her, his surprise evident. “No. I’m far too vain to object; I am my… — Meljean Brook Copy Share Image
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles. — George Washington Copy Share Image
...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain. — Rosalie Bertell Copy Share Image
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
