John Gay Quotes

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

Love, Follow, Flee

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
John Gay

Good, Evil, Friends

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

Love, Brave, Cruel

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

Friend, May, Open

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
John Gay

Forget, Remember, Understand

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay

Kiss, Sweet, Rest

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

Self, Sure, Dependence

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

Marriage, Hope, Wife

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

Often, Nose, Bloody

We only part to meet again.
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

Live, Together, Neighbor

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

Rich, Gentleman, Company

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
John Gay

Money, True, Wife

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

Envy, May, Fools

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

Women, Mind, Nothing

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

Die, Conquer, Retreat

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

Shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay

Light, Shadow, Birth

She who has never loved has never lived.
John Gay

She, Loved, Lived

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay

Love, Brave, Mercy

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

Love, Woman, Leave

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: June 30, 1685

Died: December 4, 1732

Links

Find on Amazon: John Gay

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

William Blake
John Keats
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
Alfred Lord Tennyson
William Congreve
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Cowper
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us