How Vainly Quotes
- How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
- That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we… — Robert Grudin
- How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single… — Andrew Marvell
- She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if… — Lawrence Durrell