28 Quotations by John Gay
- 1. A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si ...
- 2. A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a cont ...
- 3. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
- 4. But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the ...
- 5. But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what ...
- 6. Can you support the expense of a husband or hussy in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money en ...
- 7. Cowards are cruel, but the brave
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- 8. Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been m ...
- 9. Envy is a kind of praise.
- 10. Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
- 11. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
- 12. Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their ...
- 13. How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of mora ...
- 14. I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
- 15. Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, ...
- 16. No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
- 17. No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
- 18. O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
- 19. Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the ...
- 20. Shadow owes its birth to light.
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