John Vanbrugh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

#Good Man #Ethics #Manners
He laughs best who laughs last.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Laughter #Laughing #Lasts
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Law #Fool
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

#Women #Weakness #World
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Thinking #World #Fatigue
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
-- John Vanbrugh

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

#Past #Tasks #Sin
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Desire #Want #Enough
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
-- John Vanbrugh

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

#Debtors #Shy #Creditors
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.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Men #Wife #Being True
A slighted woman knows no bounds.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Slighted
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

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

#Pay #Rewards #Virtue
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
-- John Vanbrugh

#Ems #Wanted

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