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JOHN GAY QUOTES
John Gay (1685-1732)
English poet and dramatist
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- Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
- For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY, Fables
Praising all alike, is praising none.
JOHN GAY, Epistle to a Lady
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
- If the heart of man is deprest with cares,
- The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
He best can pity who has felt the woe.
- Youth's the season made for joys,
- Love is then our duty.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
- An open foe may prove a curse,
- But a pretended friend is worse.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
- Woman's mind
- Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind;
- Sudden she rages, like the troubled main,
- Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.
- Who takes a woman must be undone,
- That basilisk is sure to kill.
- The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,
- So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,
- He that tastes woman, ruin meets.
JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
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