Vain

Famous quotes containing the word vain:

“Or don’t you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty?”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
The day is past, and yet I saw no sun,
And now I live, and now my life is done.”
—Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586)

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)