John Vanbrugh

“The spring is the pleasantest time for stolen hours.”

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

“Custom is a tyrant.”

“Good-humour is the best clothing in the company of men.”

“No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.”

“What a dull business is life without a little struggling and difficulty!”

“To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.”

“Every man has his liking.”

“Lying and poetry are arts.”

“There are certain follies which are a mark of good sense.”

“Let us be very strange and well bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well bred as if we were not married at all.”