32 Quotes by John Vanbrugh

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

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.

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

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

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

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

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

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.