Best John Gay Quotes
- Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives. Devils
- 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… All
- No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. Conquer
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. Comfortable
- What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when… Fly
- In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow Beauty
- When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction Contradiction
- Praising all alike, is praising none Alike
- Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty Duty