Vain Quotes

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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 vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

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 his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.