Vain Quotes · Page 16

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

— Alexander Pope

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

— John Wilmot

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow…

— Augustus Hare

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

— Nicholas Culpeper

All the promises you made to me you made in vain. I lost myself inside your tainted smile again!

— Justin Lee Riner

“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“An expert is nothing more than a vain person who has read a book.”

— Corey Taylor

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

— Antonio Porchia

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself…

— Thomas a Kempis

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not,…

— John Gay

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be…

— Susan Orlean

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who…

— Jonathan Swift

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue…

— Kofi Annan

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man…

— Buddha

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are…

— Simon Cowell

Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and…

— Octave Feuillet

And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And…

— Jonathan Ive

Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent…

— Anonymous

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot…

— Galileo Galilei

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to…

— George Santayana

The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly…

— Pope Paul VI

“I'd like to be a successful author before my hairline recedes further! OK I'm vain”

— David H. Millar

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

— Rufus Sewell

“You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others: and this is why your work is in vain.”

— Kabir

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

— Gerald Brenan

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

— Joseph McCarthy

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

— Horace

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

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in…

— Aeschylus

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

— Epicurus

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

— William Penn

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

— Lily Allen

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

— Alexander Pope