Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it… — Cyril Connolly
I’m vain because I’m imperfect. — Pete Doherty
I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in… — Daniel Tammet
If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt — it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors… — Matthieu Ricard
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of… — Niles Eldredge
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed… — Pope Pius IV
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality,… — Unknown Author
Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate on it or not, you… — Joyce Meyer
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory.… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas
Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands… — Mary Alice
The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it… — William Cameron Townsend
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
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute… — Peter Abelard
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. — Walther von Brauchitsch
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities… — Josephine Hart
I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted… — Veronica Lake
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice.… — William Morris Hunt
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. — Alain de Botton
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love… — Archibald Alexander
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith… — Daniel Berrigan
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his… — A. E. Housman
There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and… — Unknown Author

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