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