John Vanbrugh Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”
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“Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.”
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“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”
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“Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.”
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“Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.”
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“If women were humbler, men would be more honest.”
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“Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals”
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“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.”
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“When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.”
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“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”
-- John Vanbrugh
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