Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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.
