John Gay: Quotes about love

John Gay was English poet and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on love.

John Gay: 112 quotes0 likes

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

Source: The Beggar's Opera

“Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?”

Matt, Act II, sc. i, air 19
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.”

Fable LXIII, "Plutus, Cupid, and Time"
Fables (1727)

“If love be not his Guide,
He never will come back!”

Lucy, Act II, sc. xv, air 40
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“Macheath: And I would love you all the day,
Polly: Every night would kiss and play,
Macheath: If with me you’d fondly stray
Polly: Over the hills and far away.”

Act I, sc. xxxiii, air 16
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“How happy I am, if you say this from your heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of another.”

Lucy, Act II, sc. xv
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.”

Mrs. Trapes, Act III, sc. vi
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.”

Act II, sc. iv, air 22
The Beggar's Opera (1728)