Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by John Vanbrugh
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English architect John Vanbrugh.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
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.
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.
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
Custom is the law of fools.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
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.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Love's like virtue, its own reward.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
He laughs best who laughs last.
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.
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
A slighted woman knows no bounds.
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
If women were humbler, men would be honester.
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