John Gay Quotes

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.

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

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.

Where yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?

Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

As we live by the Muses, it is but a Gratitude in us to encourage Poetical Merit wherever we find it. The Muses, contrary to all other Ladies, pay no Distinction to Dress, and never partially mistake the Pertness of Embroidery for Wit, nor the Modesty of Want for Dulness. Be the Author who he will, we push his Play as far as it will go. So (though you are in Want) I wish you success heartily.

Over the hills and far away.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.