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John Gay [1685-1732] English

Rank: 109
Poet

John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.

Hope, Love, Marriage, Romantic

Quote	Tags	Rank
We only part to meet again.	Romantic	101
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.		102
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.		103
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.		104
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.		105
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.	Hope, Marriage	106
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.	Love	107
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.		108
Shadow owes its birth to light.		109
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.		110
There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.		111
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.		112
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.		113
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.		114
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.		115
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.		116
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.		117
She who has never loved has never lived.		118
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.		119
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.		120
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.		121

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