Knows Bounds Quotes by John Vanbrugh

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

“Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!”

— John Vanbrugh

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

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…

— John Vanbrugh

“How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then…

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

— John Vanbrugh

Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the only heaven…

— John Vanbrugh

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

— John Vanbrugh

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

You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But…

— John Vanbrugh

Custom is the law of fools.

— John Vanbrugh

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

— John Vanbrugh