(83 quotes found)
“I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”
Bible
“For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: / But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.”
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
Thomas Gray
“In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.”
Virgil
“I'm not so young as you are vain!”
Veronica Franco
“I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.”
Wallace Shawn
“But if they were intended to drive down the sugar price, it is misleading and will be largely in vain.”
Yu Mengguo
“The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vainIf learning's altar vanish from the plain.”
William Ellery Channing
“I think that I may go so far as to say, Watson, that I have not lived wholly in vain, he remarked. "If my record were closed to-night I could still survey it with equanimity. The air of London is the sweeter for my presence."”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“I'm not a vain person at all.”
Kristen Cruz
