How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals..
It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself..
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain..
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct..
It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society..
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-….
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain..
I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy..
I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!.
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain..
I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain..
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..
Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain..
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain..
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery..
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another..
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.].
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again..
Not vain the weakest, if their force unite..
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!.
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain..