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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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.
John Keats 
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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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.
Mike Gravel
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We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
Marek Belka
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It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
William Hazlitt
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice
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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.
Susan Collins
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
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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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