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.
Frases John Gay
„A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much“
— John Gay, The Beggar's Opera
„While there is life there 's hope, he cried.“
— John Gay
Fable, The Sick Man and the Angel
Comparable to: "For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none", Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyl iv, 42; "Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est" ("While the sick man has life, there is hope", Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix, 10
„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
