Quotes of: Vain Keyword

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Tom Hiddleston

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Theodor Adorno

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Johann Georg Hamann

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

William Penn

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

The Tin Drum

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.

Paul Bourget

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Robin Ince

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

Tracey Gold

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Marianne Williamson

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

Voltaire

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich Schiller

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Jane Austen

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

Evangeline Lilly

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau