Top quotes by John Vanbrugh

A slighted woman knows no bounds. Votes: 6

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 3

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. Votes: 3

Custom is the law of fools. Votes: 3

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me. Votes: 3

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. Votes: 3

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals Votes: 3

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. Votes: 3

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world. Votes: 3

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. Votes: 0

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. Votes: 0

Love's like virtue, its own reward. Votes: 0

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. Votes: 0

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company. Votes: 0

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em. Votes: 0

He laughs best who laughs last. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If women were humbler, men would be more honest. Votes: 0

Love, like virtue, is its own reward. Votes: 0