Vain Quotes

Nature does nothing in vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

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

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

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

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

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

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

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

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

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

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

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

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.