Vanbrugh/public Life

Famous quotes containing the words vanbrugh, public and/or life:

    “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)

    “Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o’ vidders all your life, specially if they’ve kept a public house, Sammy.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Where is the life that late I led?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)