Vain Quotes · Page 35

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun…

— Ben Affleck

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

— Max Beerbohm

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I…

— Hosni Mubarak

I wouldnt describe myself as vain but I am particular about my appearance.

— Tony Hadley

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ…

— Anonymous

Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves…

— Maria Montessori

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

— Charles Dickens

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs…

— Walter Scott

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.

— George Washington

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

— Stendhal

“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail…

— Thomas Wyatt

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,…

— Pope Pius IV

Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the…

— Edmund Waller

Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made…

— Richard Rohr

That power is in vain which is never in use.

— Benjamin Whichcote

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

— Brad Alan Lewis

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its…

— Nicolas Chamfort

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle…

— John Armstrong

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

— Maimonides

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

— Abbey Clancy

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And…

— William Blake

As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is…

— Eugene Delacroix