Quotes by John Gay

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

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

“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.”

“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.”

“We only part to meet again.”

“Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.”

“Envy is a kind of praise.”

“There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.”

“A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.”

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

“Who friendship with a knave hath made Is judged a partner in the trade.”

“A miss for pleasure and a wife for breed.”

“'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.”

“So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,— The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.”

“My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.”

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

“Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.”

“All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd.”

“Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.”

“Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience made him sage.”