Vanbrugh Quotes & Sayings

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

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

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint. — Warren Stephens

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them. — Millicent Fenwick

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

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

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

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world. — John Vanbrugh

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal. — Hillary Clinton

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

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection. — Martin Fleischmann

Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us! — 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 bit,
For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet. — John Vanbrugh

It's a puzzler, and I don't want to sound full of myself, but I may just be the Vyrus messiah."
He shakes his head.
"I don't know for sure. Have to meditate on that shit some more. Anyhoo. — Charlie Huston

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

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

How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes
and the worst kissing lips in the universe. — John Vanbrugh

Life will hit you hard, regardless of what you do - adventurer, business person, king. — Robert J. Crane

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

Custom is the law of fools. — John Vanbrugh

Love's like virtue, its own reward. — 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

If women were humbler, men would be more honest. — John Vanbrugh

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

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

I have some real big goals with England. — Kevin Pietersen

One less happy practice Vanbrugh introduced with Carlisle at Castle Howard was that of razing estate villages and moving the occupants elsewhere if they were deemed to be insufficiently picturesque or intrusive. At Castle Howard, Vanbrugh cleared away not only an existing village but also a church and the ruined castle from which the new house took its name. Soon villages up and down the country were being leveled to make way for more extensive houses and unimpeded views. It was almost as if a rich person couldn't begin work on a grand house until he had thoroughly disrupted at least a few dozen menial lives. Oliver — Bill Bryson

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

He knows about things like betrayal, and being afraid, and the looks on people's faces when they know you did something they thought impossible — Tamora Pierce

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them. — Timothy Keller

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song. — Bruno Mars

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

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard. — Tobias Smollett

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. — Aubrey Beardsley