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John Gay
62 quotes
“How happy I am, if you say this from your heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of another.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If love be not his Guide, He never will come back!”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,—a terrible show!”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't enquire after your Affairs-- --so whatever happens, I wash my hands on't---- It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend should assist another-- --But if you please----I'll take one of the Scarfs home with me. 'Tis always good to have something in Hand.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd.—For death is a debt, A debt on demand.—So take what I owe.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T was when the sea was roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In ev'ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Those who in quarrels interpose Must often wipe a bloody nose.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.”
John Gay (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source