Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic… — Hideki Tojo Copy Share Image
I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that… — John Green Copy Share Image
People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice,… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet… — Lavrentiy Beria Copy Share Image
Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn… — Michael Moorcock 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
