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John Gay

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My Own Epitaph Life's a jest, and all things show it. I thought so once, and now I know it.


— John Gay


#humor #humor

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


— John Gay


#love #men #polly #women #love

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.


— John Gay


#cowards #cruel #delight #love #mercy

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.


— John Gay


#granted #his #i #kiss #pressed

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


— John Gay


#comfortable #estate #hope #keeps #only

We only part to meet again.


— John Gay


#meet #only #part

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.


— John Gay


#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

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


#company #contempt #dear #fit #gentleman

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


#fuller #money #out #reputations #spot

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.


— John Gay


#i #i remember #involve #me #remember






About John Gay






Did you know about John Gay?

In that year James Craggs the secretary of state presented him with some South Sea stock. Pope had urged him to undertake this task in order to ridicule the Arcadian pastorals of Ambrose Philips who had been praised by a short-lived contemporary publication The Guardian to the neglect of Pope's claims as the first pastoral writer of the age and the true English Theocritus. In January 1717 he produced the comedy Three Hours after Marriage which was grossly indecent without being amusing and a failure.

He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728) a ballad opera. The characters including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum became household names.

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