I must have women—there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
Quotes from The Beggar's Opera — John Gay
1685–1732 England
27 quotes
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
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Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.
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How happy could I be with either,
Were t' other dear charmer away!
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed,
By keeping men off, you keep them on.
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Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.
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'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
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The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
The judges all ranged,—a terrible show!
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Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
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If love be not his Guide,
He never will come back!
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'Tis a woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Gay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.