Vain Quotes · Page 10

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

— John Dryden

it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Anthony McCarten

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

— Stendhal

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

— Lord Acton

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

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

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm…

— Claire Danes

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

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them,…

— Michael Johnson

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream…

— William Christopher Handy

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth,…

— George Washington

Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever…

— Megan Whalen Turner

There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal…

— Sumner Welles

“My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two…

— Virchand Gandhi

Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another…

— Mark Helprin

When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't…

— Viola Davis

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the…

— Francis Bacon

Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their…

— Matthew Henry

My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond…

— Susan Kay

The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but…

— Andrew Linzey

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 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

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

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— John Calvin

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

— William Shakespeare

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

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

— Brad Alan Lewis

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

— Jack Kerouac

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

— Epicurus

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

— Francois Rabelais

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we…

— Marcel Proust

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I…

— Doug Rice

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

— Michel de Montaigne