John Gay - Woman Quotes

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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears;
Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

John Gay

If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

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'T is woman that seduces all mankind;
By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

John Gay

Man may escape from rope and gun;
Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill:
Who takes a woman must be undone,
That basilisk is sure to kill.
The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,
So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,
He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

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An inconstant woman, tho' she has no chance to be very happy, can never be very unhappy.

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A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

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Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

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