"When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the……" — John Gay
"When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction"
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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 Contradiction Quotes
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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