John Gay Quotes

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? There are not many husbands and wives, who can bear the charges of plaguing one another in a handsome way.

John Gay

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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

Eddie Redmayne
- Free
- Fear
- Action
It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
- Time
- Interesting
- Worry
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

Jack Schwartz
- Truth
- Enough
- Belief
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

Victoria Wood
- Know
- Car
- Everyone
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

Carlene Carter
- People
- Life
- Thinking
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Ibrahim Babangida
- War
- Mistakes
- Generations