Best 19 quotes of John Vanbrugh on MyQuotes

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

Custom is the law of fools.

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

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

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

He laughs best who laughs last.

Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

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.

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

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

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

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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.

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

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

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.

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.