Author: John Gay

Quotes

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

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

- John Gay

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

- John Gay

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

- John Gay

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

- John Gay

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

- John Gay

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

- John Gay

We only part to meet again.

We only part to meet again.

- John Gay

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

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

- John Gay

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.

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

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