| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 2009 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) |
| QUOTATION: | Look you, Amanda, 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 ever will be so. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | SIR JOHN VANBRUGH, “The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger,” act III, scene ii, Plays, p. 56 (1759). Berinthia is speaking. |
| SUBJECTS: | Wives |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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