Vain Quotes

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.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

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

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

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

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

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

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.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If we have not peace within ourselves,
it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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

Nature does nothing in vain.

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

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

Clichés so often befall vain people.

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

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

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

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

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

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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

I have been vain since birth.

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

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

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

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