Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
I was a big-headed little guy.
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
… vain and malignant
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
Who talks much, must talk in vain.
I will always wear what I want and have some fun doing it. I'm not afraid to take risks with my appearance. I'm not so vain.
I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
