Top 38 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. My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised.... They have huge power, and many of them are extremely reckless.
Conrad Black
#3. Allow me to let go, let it hurt if it has
to, let me regret if i have to.
Aslong as my heart feels alive once
again that's all i strive for.
Morgan Chabane
#4. 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
#5. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
John Vanbrugh
#6. I think you have to be in an insane stratosphere in terms of fame in order to get offered really well-written scripts. Amanda Peet is definitely not in that group.
Amanda Peet
#7. As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
John Vanbrugh
#8. Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
John Vanbrugh
#10. 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
#11. We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#12. True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
John Vanbrugh
#13. Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.
Bill Maher
#14. 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
#15. When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
Jeremy Rifkin
#16. I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.
Hillary Clinton
#17. 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
#18. God gave me this enormous talent, but He forgot to give me the courage to use it." ... "I don't think God forgot," Justin said. "I think He simply gave you a challenge that you haven't yet conquered.
Margaret Brownley
#19. We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
John Vanbrugh
#20. Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh
#21. 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
#24. In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.
Heimito Von Doderer
#25. The vessel dies, but the Spirit lives on.
Katy Tackes
#26. I don't focus outside of myself to my guides. I always focus inside.
Echo Bodine
#27. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh
#28. 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
#29. I can play in the 11 positions because a good player can play anywhere on the pitch.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#31. Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
John Vanbrugh
#32. Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!
John Vanbrugh
#33. When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
John Vanbrugh
#34. I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.
C.S. Lewis
#35. Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
John Vanbrugh
#36. Most of us have a lot more experience being consumers than producers, so we tend to view things through the lens of demand rather than supply.
Steven D. Levitt
#37. If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
John Vanbrugh
#38. The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
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