Vain Hopes Quotes

“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.'

'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”
― Ben Johnson

“It would hardly be early in November, there were generally delays, a bad passage or something; that favouring something which everybody who shuts their eyes while they look, or their understandings while they reason, feel the comfort of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“From sweat to vein nothing was in vain.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

“Veins don’t lie the pain wasn’t in vain.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

“Let every vein remind you it was never in vain.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip