John Gay Quotes
An English poet and dramatist.
(1685 - 1732)
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A miss for pleasure, and a wife for breed.
[Wife]
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
[Ignorance]
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
[Envy]
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Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
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He, who would free from malice pass his days, must live obscure, and never merit praise.
[Slander]
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Learning by study must be won; 'twas, ne'er entailed from sire to son.
[Learning]
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Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
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Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.
[Pride]
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
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