222 Quotes by John Gay

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

I hate the man who builds his name; On ruins of another's fame

My Own EpitaphLife's a jest, and all things show it.I thought so once, and now I know it.

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.

Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill: 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.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

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

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