109 quotes
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
While there is life there's hope, he cried.
Fables (1727)
I must have women—there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.
Fables (1727)
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!
The Beggar’s Opera (1728)
How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
In every age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.
Fables (1727)
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
Fables (1727)
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.
Fables (1727)
A justice with grave justices shall sit;
He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed,
By keeping men off, you keep them on.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view.
Fables (1727)
Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.
How short is life! how frail is human trust!
One wife is too much for most husbands to bear,
But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
Beggar's Opera (1728)
Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
The Beggar's Opera (1728)