Vain Quotes · Page 19

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

— Jack Gilbert

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

— Robert Southwell

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

— Alexander Pope

I'm too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

— Martin Luther

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

— Michel de Montaigne

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man…

— Henry Drummond

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I…

— Kerry Bishe

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I've always zoomed through life in a vain attempt to keep up with my sprinting brain. If I have to choose between…

— Megan McCafferty

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for…

— Chanakya

I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want…

— Jarvis Cocker

But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt…

— Confucius

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse…

— Mike Gravel

Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you…

— William Ernest Henley

When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend,…

— Michael Ondaatje

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the…

— Chinua Achebe

Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What…

— Swami Vivekananda

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,…

— George Crabbe

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.…

— Edmund Spenser

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than…

— Jello Biafra

To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors…

— William Gilmore Simms

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

— Robin Ince

“There is nothing more disgraceful than a vain man." "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

— Devin Madson

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

— Alfred de Musset

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

— Carl Jung

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

— Francis Quarles

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

— Matthew Henry

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary…

— John Lithgow

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.

— Oprah Winfrey

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

— Alexander Pope

“If only we studied the stars as much as we study our own reflections.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“In vain!—As fall the dews on quenchless sands, Blood only serves to wash Ambition's hands!”

— Lord Byron

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of…

— Heinrich Heine

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

— Lucretius

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe