John Gay Quotes About Wife

Quotes about: Wife

• Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

  John Gay

  Wife, Devil, Very Good

  John Gay (1772). “Plays Written by Mr. John Gay: Viz. The Captives, ... The Beggar's Opera. Polly, ... Achilles, ... The Distress'd Wife, ... The Rehearsal at Gotham, ... To which is Prefixed An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.79

• 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?

  John Gay

  Husband, Drinking, Men

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.12

• One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

  John Gay

  Husband, Two, Wife

  John Gay (1818). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.41

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