Vain Quotes

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

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

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

real beauty is never vain.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

I think my whole living in vain involves me. I know that the biggest help for me is to help someone else in so many different ways.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.