Vain Quotes

Vain Quotes & Sayings

These vain quotes and vain sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. - Louis Kronenberger


Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. - William Shakespeare


For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. - Sir Walter Scott


And not a vanity is given in vain. - Alexander Pope


Rough wind, that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the worlds wrong! - Percy Bysshe Shelley


Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


An old dog barks not in vain. - George Herbert


They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain. - William Shakespeare