Arthur Chapman quotes

“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”
-- Arthur Chapman

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“Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.”
-- Arthur Chapman

Source : "Out Where theWest Begins" l. 1 (1916)

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“Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.”
-- Arthur Chapman

Source : Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”

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“This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.”

“He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.”

“In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.”

“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”

“Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.”

“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”

“I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.”

“I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.”

Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.

“Dance in the body you have.”

“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife”, p.60