quotes from classic

Shadow owes its birth to light.

more quotes from 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.

more quotes from John Gay

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

more quotes from John Gay

I must have women -- there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

more quotes from John Gay

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

more quotes from John Gay

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

more quotes from John Gay

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

more quotes from John Gay

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

more quotes from John Gay

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

more quotes from John Gay

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

more quotes from 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.

more quotes from John Gay

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

more quotes from John Gay

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

more quotes from John Gay

We only part to meet again.

more quotes from John Gay

In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow

more quotes from John Gay

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

more quotes from John Gay

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

more quotes from John Gay

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

more quotes from John Gay

By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.

more quotes from John Gay

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

more quotes from John Gay