Vain Quotes

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

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

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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