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John Vanbrugh quotes: Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

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

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

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

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

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

John Vanbrugh quotes: As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

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

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

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

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

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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

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

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

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

John Vanbrugh quotes: Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!

Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!

John Vanbrugh quotes: Love's like virtue, its own reward.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Vanbrugh quotes: 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.

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

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

John Vanbrugh quotes: 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.

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

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

John Vanbrugh quotes: Custom is the law of fools.

Custom is the law of fools.