Quotes by John Gay

John Gay

John Gay

British playwright and poet

Lived from: 1685 - 1732

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 june 1685 Died: 4 december 1732

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  • A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
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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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  • Can Love be controll'd by advice?
    The Beggur's Opera Act 1
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  • Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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  • Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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  • Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
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  • Envy is a kind of praise.
    Fables
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  • Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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  • Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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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 best can pity who has felt the woe.
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  • How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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  • I know you lawyers can, with ease, I twist words and meanings as you please.
    Fables
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  • I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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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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  • Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Gay?

The two most famous quotes from John Gay are:

  • "A woman's friendship ever ends in love."
  • "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."

When did John Gay live?

John Gay was born in 1685 and died in the year 1732.