Vain Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.