John Vanbrugh Quotations

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

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

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

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

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

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

He laughs best who laughs last.

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

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.

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

Custom is the law of fools.

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

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.

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

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

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

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.