Quotes by John Vanbrugh - Page 1

Custom is the law of fools.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Customs
Fool
Law
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He laughs best who laughs last.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Lasts
Laughing
Laughter
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A slighted woman knows no bounds.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Bounds
Knows
Slighted
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Love's like virtue, its own reward.
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Love
Rewards
Virtue
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Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Love
Rewards
Virtue
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If women were humbler, men would be honester.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Men
Honest
Would Be
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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Fatigue
Thinking
World
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As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Ems
Ifs
Wanted
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Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Customs
Fool
Law
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Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Ethics
Good Man
Justice
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True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Moving
Stills
Virtue
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Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Given
Heart
Sex
Rid
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The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Desire
Enough
Want
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
History
Pay
Rewards
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Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Past
Sin
Tasks
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We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Four
Gentleman
Order
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Men
Infidelity
Wife
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Creditors
Debtors
Shy
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Women
Mankind
Weakness
World
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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 / Architect
Friendship
Growth
Nice
Roots
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Earth
Heaven
Written
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Bits
Drinking
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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.
John Vanbrugh / Architect
Men
Air
Wife
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