Frases de John Gay
John Gay
Fecha de nacimiento: 30. Junio 1685
Fecha de muerte: 4. Diciembre 1732
John Gay fue un poeta y dramaturgo inglés, conocido como el primero en escribir en su idioma materno fábulas en verso.
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poeta y dramaturgo españolFrases John Gay
„A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much“
— John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
„So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.“
— John Gay
The What d' ye call it (1715). Comparable to: "The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a 'quart d'heure de Rabelais,'—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy", Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13
„Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.“
— John Gay
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
„Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!“
— John Gay
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
„Give me, kind Heaven, a private station,
A mind serene for contemplation:
Title and profit I resign;
The post of honour shall be mine.“
— John Gay
The Vulture, the Sparrow, and other Birds. Comparable to: "When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station", Joseph Addison, Cato, Act iv, scene 4
