Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain. — Hugh Martin
I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're… — Bill Skarsgard
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain. — Rosalie Bertell
Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature,… — Baron d'Holbach
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite… — Rabindranath Tagore
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek… — William Shakespeare
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. — Charles Spurgeon
Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee… — Bret Harte
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to… — Joseph Addison
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the… — Richard Watson Gilder
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. — William Penn
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him… — Walter Raleigh
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. — William Cowper
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. — Robert Southey
Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. — Alexander Pope
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,… — Alexander Pope
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope
And not a vanity is given in vain. — Alexander Pope

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