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…

— 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…

— John Vanbrugh

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

— 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…

— 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…

— John Vanbrugh

Custom is the law of fools.

— John Vanbrugh

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

— John Vanbrugh

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever…

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

He laughs best who laughs last.

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

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

— John Vanbrugh

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

— John Vanbrugh