John Vanbrugh
John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapseand The Provoked Wife, which have become enduring stage favourites but originally occasioned much controversy. He was knighted in 1714...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth24 January 1664
law fool customs
Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.
law fool customs
Custom is the law of fools.
thinking world fatigue
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
shy debtors creditors
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
love rewards virtue
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
desire want enough
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
past tasks sin
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
men would-be honest
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
bounds knows slighted
A slighted woman knows no bounds.
women weakness world
Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it.
laughter laughing lasts
He laughs best who laughs last.
ems wanted ifs
As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.
men air wife
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.
men wife infidelity
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.