Sir John Vanbrugh

Famous quotes containing the words sir, john and/or vanbrugh:

“O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
—Jacob, Sir Astley (1579–1652)

“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
—Harvey Thew, screenwriter, John Bright, screenwriter, and Lowell Sherman. Lady Lou (Mae West)

“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.”
—John Vanbrugh (1663–1726)