Vain Quotes

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.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

Royalty consists not in vain pomp, but in great virtues

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.

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.

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.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Sacrifices are not in vain. At the end, everything will pay off.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

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

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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.

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

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

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.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

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.