Quotes of: Vain Keyword

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Phaedrus

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

Ranbir Kapoor

Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction.

Ram Mohan

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

Ralph Adams Cram

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

Jack Gilbert

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

Dave Pelzer

Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Grace Jones

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

John Owen

You're so vain, I bet you think this Special National Intelligence Estimate is about you.

John Alejandro King

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Yoko Ono

You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary, Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

Life

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

Virginia Woolf

You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

Joanna Lumley

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

The Sun Watches the Sun

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Pablo Casals

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm