Vain Quotes - Page 25

• 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.

  Jane Fonda

  Flesh, Arms, Careful

  Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 4, 2011.

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• Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Suffering, Economics

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Struggle, Sun

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• 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.

  Selena Gomez

  Jobs, Makeup, Hair

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Mirrors, Looks, Literature

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• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Strong, Men, Mind

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

  Augustus Hare

  People, Example, Excellent

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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

  Truth, Men, Order

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

  David Hilbert

  Science, Mind, Problem

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• How vain, without the merit, is the name.

  Homer

  Vanity, Names, Literature

  Homer (1909). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.391

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• 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

  Sentimental, Cases, Accuracy

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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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

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.803, e-artnow

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• Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Faith, Cutting, Anxiety

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• 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.

  Diane Kruger

  Self, Focus, Littles

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• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Character, Mean, Clothes

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• 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.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Summing Up (1938) p. 187

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• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  Kate Moss

  Want, Models

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Rights, Blood, Law

  Hosni Mubarak's speech to his nation, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  Gary Numan

  Jobs, Vanity, Hair

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• 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.

  Susan Orlean

  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Wedding, Men

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• I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

  John Ruskin

  Landscape Painting, Done, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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