Skip to content

Authorship Quote by John Gay

“Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.” quote by John Gay — Download Open image

“Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Authorship Books Brother Envy Pay Spurs Wit

More by John Gay

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

Image

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Image

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

Image

To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman

Image

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Image

Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

Image

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Image

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

Image

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you…

Image

Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too…

Image

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend…

Image

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Image

Explore all 115 John Gay quotes

More Authorship quotes

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Image

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

Jean de la Bruyere

Image

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have…

Donna Scrima-Black

Image

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should…

Christopher Hitchens

Image

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

Image

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

Harriet Martineau

Image

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get…

Image

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love…

Amos Bronson Alcott

Image

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Image

All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality…

Image

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

Charles Caleb Colton

Image

Browse all 179 Authorship quotes