John Gay quotes - page 3

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. (John Gay)
While there is life there 's hope, he cried.
John Gay
Over the hills and far away.
John Gay
The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met, The judges all ranged,-a terrible show!
John Gay
Is there no hope? the sick man said; The silent doctor shook his head.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
John Gay
Where yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?
John Gay
If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure nobody can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles's. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can say.
John Gay
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
John Gay
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 of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
John Gay
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. (John Gay)
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
John Gay
She who has never loved has never lived.
John Gay
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
John Gay
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
John Gay
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 they've won us.
John Gay
The politicians to a man agree, that it is free from particular reflections, but that the satire on general societies of men is too severe. Not but we now and then meet with people of greater perspicuity, who are in search for particular applications in every leaf; and it is highly probable we shall have keys published to give light into Gulliver's design. Lord -- is the person who least approves it, blaming it as a design of evil consequence to depreciate human nature . The duchess dowager of Marlborough is in raptures at it; she says she can dream of nothing else since she read it: she declares, that she has now found out, that her whole life has been lost in caressing the worst part of mankind, and treating the best as her foes: and that if she knew Gulliver, though he had been the worst enemy she ever had; she should give up her present acquaintance for his friendship.
John Gay