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
thinking world fatigue
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.
men would-be honest
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
past tasks sin
Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals
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.
love rewards virtue
Love, like virtue, is its own reward.
law fool customs
Custom is the law of fools.
moving virtue stills
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
love rewards virtue
Love's like virtue, its own reward.