Quotes by Vain

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

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

Michel de Montaigne
fickle vain men
Love, so many People use your Name in vain. by Musiq

Love, so many People use your Name in vain.

Musiq
vain people
In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain. by Nhat Hanh

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.

Nhat Hanh
vain climbing mountain
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and con... by Norm MacDonald

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

Norm MacDonald
vain failing complaining
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find by Oliver Goldsmith

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find

Oliver Goldsmith
vain mind happiness
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. by Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde
vanity vain sin
I find that men are far more vain than women. by Patricia Arquette

I find that men are far more vain than women.

Patricia Arquette
vain men
I’m vain because I’m imperfect. by Pete Doherty

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

Pete Doherty
imperfect vain

There are many photos of Eisenstein. I think he was quite vain, and he liked photos of him. Being a virgin at 33 is strange now, but let's not be too high-minded about that.

Peter Greenaway
vain strange thinking
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. by Philip Sidney

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Philip Sidney
profanity betray vain
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it. by Philip Sidney

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Philip Sidney
vain suicide wish
Violence is just, where kindness is vain. by Pierre Corneille

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Pierre Corneille
vain violence kindness
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) by Plautus

I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)

Plautus
vain oil lost
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. by Quintilian

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Quintilian
vain hope dream
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it.... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
vain secret knows
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias b... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
sculpture vain awful
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright! by Robert Burns

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

Robert Burns
vain military lord
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. by Robert Burns

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

Robert Burns
vain done men
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the... by Robert Herrick

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.

Robert Herrick
vain action giving
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain. by Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Robert Green Ingersoll
vain liberty