Vain Quotes

986 Vain quotes by 692 unique authors

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. — Marianne Moore
I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason. — Thomas Jefferson
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I… — Emma Watson
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time… — Galen Rowell
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain. — Aristotle
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and… — Evelyn Waugh
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other… — Ludwig von Mises
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and… — Adam Sedgwick
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely… — Charles Lamb
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor,… — Pope Paul VI
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable… — Pio of Pietrelcina
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone… — D. H. Lawrence

Who Wrote These Vain Quotes

692 authors contributed a total of 986 Vain Quotes, led by these top contributors: