If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster's.

A. A. Gill

Woo Voice Vain

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

A. A. Milne

Writing Ways Way

I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

Abbey Clancy

Love Vain Us

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

Men Government God

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Abu Bakr

Anger Who Vain

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Adam Clayton

Equality Yards Yard

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

Adoniram Judson

God Without Wit

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Aeschylus

Vain Though Thou

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Aesop

Well Vain T

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

Power Woman Virtue

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.

Alex Kingston

Wit Will Wear

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

Alex Pareene

Vain Up Them

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

Yes Wins Win

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

Life Art You

I want to only be part of films that are worth my time. I give my heart and soul for four-five months and I don't want that to go in vain.

Amala Paul

Time Art Worth

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Andre Breton

Life Vain T

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

Andrew Motion

Work Great Written

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Anne Frank

Men Death Want

Why is there such vanity about hair? I make a point to bathe. I worry about boogers in my nose, and I ask the makeup artist to cover up my pimples, but beyond that, I try not to be too vain.

Anthony Edwards

Art Worry Why

As you get older, you become more vain. But as your looks slowly deteriorate, your eyesight worsens, so it all balances out.

Anthony McCarten

Your You Yes

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aristotle

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

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Baruch Spinoza

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Ben Affleck

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

Bhagat Singh

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I'm always looking for something that's real and that's got meat on it. I think it's artistic suicide if you're too vain, or if you're afraid to play ugly. I would never fall for that.

Bill Skarsgard

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

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Bodhidharma

What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.

Brendan Gleeson

A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

Brian Sutton-Smith

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Buddha

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Camille Paglia

I have my insecurities, and some days you don't want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don't notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it's all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

Candice Patton

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

Caroline Knapp

It really annoys me that I'm vain, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to discard that tendency.

Carrie Fisher

I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.

Charli XCX

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

Christian de Duve

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

Claire Danes

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

Claire Danes

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

Colin Kaepernick

Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.

Cornelia Parker

There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Cristiano Ronaldo

I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.

Danny Glover