"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to……" — John Gay
"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
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34 Quotes by John Gay
John Gay has 34 quotes on this site.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the…
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt…
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
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Shadow owes its birth to light.
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On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
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More Devils Quotes
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not…
— William Blake
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
— Lionel Blue
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs.…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!
— Mike Milbury
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The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils…
— Moliere
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Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians…
— Martin Luther
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Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a…
— Martin Luther
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