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Vain Quotes by Charles Dickens
- You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What…
- You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
- It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
- It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all…
- Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.
More Vain Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P T Barnum
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow
- 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