Restoration Comedy Quotes

“As for the saints (your thorough-paced ones I mean, with screwed faces and wry mouths), I despair of them, for they are friends to nobody. They love nothing but their altars and themselves; they have too much zeal to have any charity; they make debauches in piety as sinners do in wine, and are as quarrelsome in their religion as other people are in their drink; so I hope nobody will mind what they say.”
― John Vanbrugh, The relapse : or, Virtue in danger.