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Vain Quotes

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I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
Clark Gable

Authors on Vain Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Blaise Pascal Samuel Johnson Horace Karl Kraus John Milton Francois de La Rochefoucauld Robert Burns Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ralph Waldo Emerson Leonardo da Vinci Alexander Pope Hosea Ballou Philip Sidney Friedrich Schiller Antonio Porchia John Calvin Aristotle Isaac of Nineveh James Russell Lowell Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Stanisław I Leszczyński Johann Georg Hamann Dumitru Tepeneag Theodor Adorno Gunter Grass Lyman Abbott Abdullah ibn Mubarak Waris Dirie Francesco Redi Lionel Shriver Jonathan Edwards Christopher Titus
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Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Howard Cosell

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Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
Agesilaus II

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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.
Marianne Moore

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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
Jonathan Edwards

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It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.
Zoltan Kodaly

7.
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.
Gabby Douglas

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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
George D. Prentice

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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
Tycho Brahe

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I’m vain because I’m imperfect.
Pete Doherty

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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft

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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
Ai Weiwei

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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
Alexander Pushkin

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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
Friedrich Nietzsche

17.
If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak

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Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
Elisabeth Elliot

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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
John Calvin

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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
Mary Boykin Chesnut

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Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
Michel de Montaigne

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Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.
John Keats

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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Roger Penrose

24.
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonald

25.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
Hermann von Helmholtz

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I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
Saint Patrick

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This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
Isaac of Nineveh

28.
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
Virginia Woolf

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Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.
Elsa Schiaparelli

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

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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire

32.
If we have not peace within ourselves,
it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle

34.
Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.
Helena Rubinstein

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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss

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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
William Cowper

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To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er come down again.
Mary Howitt

38.
Clichés so often befall vain people.
Ann Beattie

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If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Max Ehrmann

40.
I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.
Taylor Swift

41.
For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
Adam Lindsay Gordon

42.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian

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If a man doesn't find ease in himself,
'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have been vain since birth.
Wallace Shawn

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Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
Jacques Maritain

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Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon

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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius

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Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.
Francesco Redi

49.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Oscar Wilde

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All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
John Owen