John Vanbrugh Quotes

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

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

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

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

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.

He laughs best who laughs last.

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

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

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

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

Custom is the law of fools.

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

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.