Top 144 Vain Quotes

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

I’m not usually vain about my body. It’s like Pennsylvania: The same way the Keystone State comprises Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with not much in between, I’ve got good legs and shapely eyebrows, and it’s kind of a wasteland outside of that.

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

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

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

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I’ve typical singer’s jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but the knife isn’t an exciting prospect.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.

I’m very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I’m not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I’m playing a character.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

People are dying in vain because this country isn’t holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

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

If God had not intended that Women shou’d use their Reason, He wou’d not have given them any, ‘for He does nothing in vain.’

This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That’s a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I don’t think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

In God’s world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame – I’m vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I’ve helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

The joke I always make about myself is that I’m self-involved, but I’m not vain.

Vanity takes a lot of work. I’m too lazy to be vain.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

I want to only be part of films that are worth my time. I give my heart and soul for four-five months and I don’t want that to go in vain.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they’re dying in vain right this very second. And you know what’s worse than a soldier dying in vain? It’s more soldiers dying in vain. That’s what’s worse.

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

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

I’m too short-sighted, too squeamish for contact lenses and too vain for glasses.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

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

Looks are temporary and don’t mirror what’s inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I’m not!

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That’s been the focus while I’m in my thirties – to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

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

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

I’m vain. My arms are thin, but I’m vain about loose flesh. And so I’m careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you’re thinking about how you look, you’re not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, ‘Hmm, I guess I’m not that vain,’ it’s like something I wanted to protect. I can’t imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they’re capable of and still be vain.

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.

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

As leakers take great risks in releasing information, assuring them that they are not sacrificing themselves in vain and that their leaks would have public consequences would most likely encourage more people to leak.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

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

I’m as vain as the next person, but I’ve made so much fun of myself over the years, and that’s very salutary as you grow older.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

I think it’s easy for people to say, ‘Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.’ People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That’s unfair judgment.

I gave up writing children’s books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from ‘Punch’: as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

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

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it’s a woman who’s extremely vain.