Quotes About Vain Woman

#1. The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.

Camron Wright

#2. 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

#3. It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

Joseph Joubert

#4. Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#6. If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!

Adam Sedgwick

#7. The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.

George R R Martin

#8. Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!

Jane Austen

#9. Proverbs 31:30: Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Matt Chandler

#10. Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium - indifference.

Leon Trotsky

#11. You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

Nathan Fillion

#12. My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility ... but the payoffs are well worth it.

Will Estes

#13. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

Walter Scott

#14. Which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace.

Marcel Proust

#15. I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

Diane Kruger

#16. My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.

Bill Gates

#17. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,
She shall be praised.
(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

Anonymous

#18. As Jebel tried in vain to fall asleep, he became aware of a small clicking noise. He turned and looked at the woman. Her robe was raised above her knees and she was scratching at a wound on her thigh. She had worked her way through to the bone and was picking at it with her nails.

Darren Shan

#19. A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Carlo Wolff

#20. In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

Glenn Tipton

#21. You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Irvin S. Cobb

#22. I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

Kal Penn

#23. Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. I'm in a mainline church, I'm very aware, especially as I move through community churches and new-start churches that are making real efforts not to associate themselves with traditional denominations - very often they have no history. They have no institutional memory.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#25. If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.

David Brooks

#26. Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates.

Jonathan Kellerman

#27. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.

Barbra Streisand

#28. My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

Jackee Harry

#29. site's lead writer, dug into the histories

Ashlee Vance

#30. VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

Andy Stanley

#31. 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

#32. Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

Robert Frost

#33. 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

#34. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

George Farquhar

#35. It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

Michael Behe

#36. I have watched him as only a woman can watch a man upon whom her fate depends, but it has always been in vain.

Emile Gaboriau

#37. In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron De Montesquieu

#38. 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

#39. One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

Kate Constable

#40. Jacinta knew from the start that this city was a woman, cruel and vain; she learned to fear her and never look her in the eye.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon