He laughs best who laughs last.

- John Vanbrugh

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

- John Vanbrugh

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

- John Vanbrugh

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

- 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 i…

- 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

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

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

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

- John Vanbrugh