Quotes about John Gay

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

#John Gay

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

#John Gay

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

#John Gay

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot...

#John Gay

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and...

#John Gay

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

#John Gay

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And...

#John Gay

We only part to meet again.

#John Gay

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

#John Gay

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

#John Gay

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

#John Gay

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

#John Gay