John Vanbrugh

"Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her."

"Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world."

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

"Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. Lady Brute: That may be a mistake in the translation."

"When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company."

"He laughs best who laughs last."

"Much of a muchness."

"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable."

"As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em."