1.
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
2.
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Howard Cosell
3.
Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues
Agesilaus II
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
8.
Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.
Gabby Douglas
9.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
George D. Prentice
10.
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft
14.
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
Ai Weiwei
15.
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
Alexander Pushkin
18.
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
19.
Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
John Calvin
22.
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
23.
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
26.
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
27.
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
29.
Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.
Elsa Schiaparelli
31.
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
35.
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss
36.
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
37.
To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again.
Mary Howitt
39.
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
42.
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
45.
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
Jacques Maritain
46.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon
47.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
49.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Oscar Wilde
50.
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
John Owen