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Vain Quotes by Walter Scott
- Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.
- Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.
- Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in…
- Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful…
- Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
More Vain Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. — Abu Bakr
- Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P T Barnum
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- I'm glad I haven't lived in vain. — Saul Bellow
- You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra