Blind Quote by William Shakespeare

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

— William Shakespeare

“How vain are all these Glories, all our Pains, Unless good Sense preserve what Beauty gains: That Men may say, when we the Front-box…

— Alexander Pope

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it…

— Anonymous

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it…

— Khalil Gibran

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

— George Herbert

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain:…

— Francis Quarles

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears…

— Oscar Wilde

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee.…

— Francis Quarles

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

— Thomas Carlyle