222 Quotes by John Gay

In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

Exercise thy lasting youth defends.

In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne’er like man betrayed.

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

So comes a reck’ning when the banquet’s o’er, The dreadful reckn’ning, and men smile no more.

A woman’s friendship ever ends in love.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O’er books consumed the midnight oil?

Envy’s a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar’d a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.