Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent
William Gilmore Simms
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before
Jonathan Swift
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
Rabindranath Tagore
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
I am intrigued by glamorous women....A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn`t need to.
Clark Gable
People always ask me if I`m like Blanche. And I say, `Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta -- and I`m not from Atlanta!`
Rue McClanahan
`My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman. I`ve never thought of myself as vain. When I was at Cambridge, I shaved my head and wore baggy clothes. What I did was to desexualise myself. I...
Emma Thompson
I somehow believed that a gym membership went along with being vain. And if you were vain, you were probably the type to judge people and not much fun to be around.
Elisabeth Rohm
I somehow believed that a gym membership went along with being vain. And if you were vain, you were probably the type to judge people and not much fun to be around.
Elisabeth Rohm
I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I`m fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.
Kathie Gifford
On his transformation into Patrick Bateman for American Psycho (2000): "The character is so vain and obsessed with his looks. While the psychology of the character was something that I could perform, you can`t fake the physicality. Being English, I tend t...
Christian Bale
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house I was living in. From what I understood, he was having an affair with the wife of the man he was designing the house for. That man was very tall. So Wright, short and vain, designs the house in such a way that a tall ...
Donald Sutherland
Right now, I feel like I look exhausted, because I`m tired. I`m not vain, like: I want to look pretty. That`s never bothered me. But if I see a photograph of me and I look tired, then I`d be more worried than if I looked ugly. (2007)
Bjork Guomundsdottir
I don`t feel the pressure myself. You have to understand that obviously the way you look is influencing the casting. Not to sound vain, but you have to have a third eye looking at yourself objectively, asking why you`re being cast in these roles. It would...
Ioan Gruffudd
You are not unworthy of the men who entered the ranks of a Macedonian phalanx, and who contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia.
Alex Solis
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
We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Andres Avila
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent
William Gilmore Simms
