John Vanbrugh Quotes

#1. 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.

John Vanbrugh

#2. 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

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

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

#5. Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

John Vanbrugh

#6. Custom is the law of fools.

John Vanbrugh

#7. 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

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

John Vanbrugh

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

#13. 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

#14. Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

#16. How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes
and the worst kissing lips in the universe.

John Vanbrugh

#17. Love's like virtue, its own reward.

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

#19. Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh

#22. If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

John Vanbrugh

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

John Vanbrugh