Sir John Vanbrugh

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

    “and the words never said,
    And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead.
    We sat in the car park till twenty to one
    And now I’m engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “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)