Top 38 Vanbrugh Quotes
#1. Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!
John Vanbrugh
#2. I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
#3. Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come.
Mark Dominik
#4. Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh
#6. I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.
Lee Ryan
#7. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
Tony Abbott
#8. 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
#10. Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
John Vanbrugh
#12. In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
Sadie Jones
#13. When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
John Vanbrugh
#14. I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.
Robert Harris
#15. Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
John Vanbrugh
#16. I've learned ... That money doesn't buy class.
Andy Rooney
#17. If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
John Vanbrugh
#18. Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.
Ayelet Waldman
#19. The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh
#21. He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has seen the misery of woman only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of childhood.
Victor Hugo
#22. Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
Gus Hall
#23. Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
J.C. Ryle
#24. 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
#25. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
John Vanbrugh
#26. The eye of Ego to the eye of Tao
Ilchi Lee
#27. As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
John Vanbrugh
#28. I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are ... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.
Jay Neugeboren
#29. Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
John Vanbrugh
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
John Vanbrugh
#33. 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
#34. Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only to free you from obstructions. If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don't separate from this skin bag here and now.
Shitou Xiqian
#35. 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
#36. We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
John Vanbrugh
#37. Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh
#38. 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
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