We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give… — Virginia Gildersleeve 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
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And… — William Blake Copy Share Image
