Vain Quotes

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.

What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

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

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

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 out of men.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.