Vain Quotes - Page 8

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.