Vain

Famous quotes containing the word vain:

“‘Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
A shudder ran around the sky;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)