Quote

She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.

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
Never

More quotes by 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
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
John Gay
Image
I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
John Gay
Image
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
John Gay
Image
Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
John Gay
Image
Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale
John Gay
Image
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
John Gay
Image
[Gulliver was soon being read] from the cabinet council to the nursery.
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
In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
John Gay
Image
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
John Gay
Image
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
John Gay
Image
Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.
John Gay
Image
In beauty faults conspicuous grow The smallest speck is seen on snow.
John Gay
Image
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
John Gay
Image
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Image
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
John Gay
Image
You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.
John Gay
Image
Praising all alike, is praising none.
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