"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."

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Source : 'The Relapse' (1696) act 3, sc. 2

John Vanbrugh

#Men Quotes #Wife Quotes #Being True Quotes

“Persevere in virtue and diligence.”
“There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.”
“Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.”

Source : John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press
“I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.”
“Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.”
“If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.”
“I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'”
“There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.”

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