John Gay: Quotes about thinking

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

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“Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?”

Peachum, Act I, sc. viii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“You know, my Dear, I never meddle in matters of Death; I always leave those Affairs to you. Women indeed are bitter bad Judges in these cases, for they are so partial to the Brave that they think every Man handsome who is going to the Camp or the Gallows.”

Mrs. Peachum, Act I, sc. iv
The Beggar's Opera (1728)

“I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown,
Imagine that they raise their own.
Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise,
Think slander can transplant the bays.”

Fable XLV, "The Poet and the Rose"
Fables (1727)

“Through all the Employments of Life
Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
All Professions be-rogue one another:
The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
And the Statesman, because he's so great,
Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.”

Peachum, Act I, air 1
The Beggar's Opera (1728)