Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. — George Eliot
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that… — Leonhard Euler
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best… — Jane Fonda
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them. — Augustus Hare
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. — William Hazlitt
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. — David Hilbert
Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
How vain, without the merit, is the name. — Homer
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. — David Hume
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. — Carl Jung
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot… — John Keats
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. — Thomas a Kempis
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never… — Omar Khayyam
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's… — Diane Kruger
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes… — Padma Lakshmi
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly… — William Law
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new… — Abraham Lincoln
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value… — Michelangelo
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model. — Kate Moss
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to… — Hosni Mubarak
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow… — Florence Nightingale
I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity,… — Gary Numan

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