“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.”
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Famous John Gay Quotes
“Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.”
Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives
“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”
Source: The Beggar's Opera and Polly
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Translations, Prologues and epilogues, Fables, Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and ballads
“Can love be controll'd by advice?”
Source: The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera
“In love we are all fools alike.”
Source: The Beggar's Opera: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields : [Text of the Play]