„O orgulho está para o caráter assim como o sótão está para a casa - a parte mais alta é, via de regra, a mais vazia.“— John Gay
„My Own EpitaphLife's a jest, and all things show it.I thought so once, and now I know it.“— John Gay
„Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.“— John GayThe Beggar's Opera
„MRS. PEACHUMHow the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing to them – they break through them all.“— John GayThe Beggar's Opera
„Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.“— John Gay
„... money is made for the free-hearted and generous, and where is the injury of taking from another, what he hath not the heart to make use of?“— John Gay
