Top Vain Quotes
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau
I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
Kate Moss
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer
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Voltaire All Vain Quotes
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
Louis Kronenberger 
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter
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I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
Danny Glover
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
Wallace Shawn
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
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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!
Dorothy Stratten
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It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.
Gideon Welles
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Popular Vain Authors
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W. Somerset MaughamJoseph AddisonTheodor AdornoJean de la BruyereFriedrich SchillerT. S. EliotCarl JungW. H. AudenJohn Kenneth GalbraithAbu BakrDavid Hume AesopEmily DickinsonLaurence J. PeterBaruch Spinoza
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