Quote

Praising all alike, is praising none.

John Gay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Gay
Age: 47 †
Born: 1685
Born: June 30
Died: 1732
Died: December 4
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Barnstaple
Devon
None
Praising
Alike
Praise

More quotes by John Gay

Image
Fair words cost nothing.
John Gay
Image
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother Wits are gamecocks to one another.
John Gay
Image
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.
John Gay
Image
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
Image
The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.
John Gay
Image
To friendship every burden's light.
John Gay
Image
The charge is prepared the lawyers are met The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.
John Gay
Image
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
John Gay
Image
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
John Gay
Image
Envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Image
In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
John Gay
Image
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
John Gay
Image
She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.
John Gay
Image
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
John Gay
Image
[Gulliver was soon being read] from the cabinet council to the nursery.
John Gay
Image
Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?
John Gay
Image
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No the dead know it not, nor profit gain It only serves to prove the living vain.
John Gay
Image
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Image
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
John Gay
Image
To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.
John Gay