John Gay Quotes

John Gay
John Gay
English Poet
Born: Jun 30, 1685
Died: Dec 4, 1732
Brave Delight Love Mercy Must Wife
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay
Light Owes Birth Shadow
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. John Gay
Love Will Follow Thee Flee
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. John Gay
Love Mercy Cowards Delight Cruel Brave Save
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. John Gay
Worse Foe Pretended Open Prove Friend May Curse
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. John Gay
Me Remember Tell Involve Understand Forget Show
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. John Gay
Must Retreat Die Conquer
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 Fly Fond Pursue Leave Won Them Then Us Grow Shun
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
You World Gentleman Rich Nowadays Hath Contempt Dear Fit Rogue Any Company Imagine
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. John Gay
Rest Kiss Sweet Pressed He Till His Closely Granted
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them. John Gay
Women Mind Nothing Must Like Them
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. John Gay
Hope Marriage Wife Spirits Only Comfortable Up Estate Keeps

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