John Gay
John Gay
John Gaywas an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera, a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 June 1685
cheat cheating cheats fine man woman
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
break cheating father handsome hath lectures morality mother pitied pleasure
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
ass should cheated
By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
men cheat fine
To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
needed physical turned
The physical play got to us and then frustration set in. We needed to get something going offensively, but we turned it over, couldn't get back (on defense) ? that was the story.
bring decent growth hundred pipe
Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth.
earth english-poet spot stain true
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.
delight english-poet love
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
english-poet loved
She who has never loved has never lived.
english-poet good name
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
english-poet foe pretended
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
estate hope keeps marriage
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
english-poet involve
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
died
While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died