A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

More Quotes by John Gay

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

We only part to meet again.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.