Vain Quotes · Page 14

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

— Lily Allen

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

— Mel Gibson

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

— William Ellery Channing

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

— Anonymous

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

— Alexander Pope

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

— Dante Alighieri

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of…

— Horace Mann

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

I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the…

— Gary Numan

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but…

— Leo Sayer

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,…

— Bret Harte

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and…

— Agnes Repplier

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past:…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit…

— Epicurus

But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which…

— Georg Prochaska

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build…

— Benjamin Franklin

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may…

— John Henry Newman

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's…

— Lord Byron

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

— Inge Lehmann

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

— Lord Byron

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

— Richard Dawkins

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

— John Shaw Billings

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

— William Shakespeare

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

— Alexa Chung

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

— Philip Sidney

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Women may be vain, but when a man is vain, it is beyond believing, for a man is willing to die for…

— Susan Sontag The Volcano Lover

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

— Tracey Gold

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

— William Penn

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

— Georges Bizet

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

— Walter Scott