John Vanbrugh
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- City of London
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight Bachelor
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her."
"As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em."
"No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so."
"Vanbrugh, The Provoked Wife. Use with caution, this is an abridged and bowdlerised text."
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1664
Born
Birth1726
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped John's philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by John's ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about John Vanbrugh is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"That the environment does wrongs to man’s mind today none will deny. These wrongs are not done because cons…"
— Christopher Caudwell"A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells …"
— Wilkie Collins"Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above all a quiet mind."
— Flora Thompson"For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't loo…"
— P. L. Travers"The idea for this picture came to me one winter's night as I was leaving La Scala. In the foreground there …"
— Carlo Carrà"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those boo…"
— Albert Camus
