John Vanbrugh Quotes

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You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

John Vanbrugh
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven on earth is written.

John Vanbrugh
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

John Vanbrugh
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

John Vanbrugh
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.

John Vanbrugh
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

John Vanbrugh
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.

John Vanbrugh
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

John Vanbrugh
No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

John Vanbrugh
When once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her body.

John Vanbrugh
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

John Vanbrugh
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

John Vanbrugh
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

John Vanbrugh
Lady Brute: 'Tis a hard fate I should not be believed.
Sir John: 'Tis a damned atheistical age, wife.

John Vanbrugh
So, now I am in for Hobbes's voyage, a great leap in the dark.
'Heartfree' on marriage

John Vanbrugh
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

John Vanbrugh
Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.
Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.

John Vanbrugh