John Vanbrugh Quotes

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

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

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

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.

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

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

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

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

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.

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.

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

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

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

Custom is the law of fools.