John Vanbrugh Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Heart #Given

“Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Good Man #Ethics #Manners
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Laughter #Laughing #Lasts
“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Law #Fool
“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

#Women #Weakness #World
“Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Thinking #World #Fatigue
“If women were humbler, men would be more honest.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Men #Would Be #Honest
“Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Past #Tasks #Sin
“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Desire #Want #Enough
“Love, like virtue, is its own reward.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Love #Rewards #Virtue
“When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Debtors #Shy #Creditors
“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

#Men #Wife #Being True
“A slighted woman knows no bounds.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Slighted
“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

#Men #Air #Wife
“Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Pay #Rewards #Virtue
“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”
-- John Vanbrugh

#Ems #Wanted

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