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 too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

- Grace Jones

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

- Friedrich Schiller

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

- Friedrich Schiller

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

- Edmund Waller

I was brought up in a household where I was not allowed to take the Lord's name in vain.

- Evangeline Lilly

I'm an actor; I'm vain - you want to look good.

- David Sutcliffe

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

- David Hume

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

- David Hilbert

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

- Danny Glover

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

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

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Bodhidharma

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

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

- Andre Breton

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

- Abbey Clancy

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

- Alex Pareene

Nature does nothing in vain.

- Aristotle