Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still… — H.G. Wells
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as… — John Newton
He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit. — Megan Whalen Turner
Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again. — Abdul Kalam
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. — Immanuel Kant
Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless… — Anne Bronte
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I… — Wayne Dyer
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than… — Sylvia Plath
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the… — Cassandra Clare
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero,… — Rachel Vincent
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck… — George MacDonald
Let the past not be forgotten. Let the lessons not be in vain. — Lora Leigh
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then… — Stevie Nicks
I stole your childhood and now I’ve led you by the hand to your death. But the worst thing is, I knew. I knew this… — Steven Moffat
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain;… — Veronica Roth
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good… — Ben Jonson
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. — Samuel Johnson
Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time."… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. — John Dryden
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking… — Herbert Butterfield
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. — Hesketh Pearson

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