32 Quotes by John Vanbrugh

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

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

He laughs best who laughs last.

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

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.

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.

Custom is the law of fools.

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

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.