George Chapman quotes
-
“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
-- George ChapmanSource : 'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1
-
“Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.”
-- George Chapman -
“And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.”
-- George Chapman -
“Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.”
-- George Chapman -
-
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”
-- George Chapman -
“We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.”
-- George Chapman -
“The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.”
-- George Chapman -
“I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.”
-- George ChapmanSource : Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).
-
-
“The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.”
-- George Chapman -
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231
-
“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”
-- George ChapmanSource : All Fools act 5, sc. 1 (1605)
-
“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press
-
-
“Love is Natures second sun.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.48
-
“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452
-
“Danger, the spur of all great minds.”
-- George ChapmanSource : The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)
-
“Tis immortality to die aspiring.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.218
-
-
“Fair words never hurt the tongue.”
-- George ChapmanSource : Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.84, A&C Black
-
“Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.”
-- George Chapman -
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98
-
“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”
-- George ChapmanSource : Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.85, A&C Black
-
-
“Fate's such a shrewish thing.”
-- George ChapmanSource : 1611 The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, bk.4, l.21.
-
“There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.”
-- George Chapman -
“They're only truly great who are truly good.”
-- George ChapmanSource : 'Revenge for Honour' (1654) act 5, sc. 2, last line
-
“An ill weed grows apace.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37
-
-
“Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.”
-- George ChapmanSource : "Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois". Book by George Chapman, 1613.
-
“Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.”
-- George Chapman -
“Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.”
-- George Chapman -
“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman, Akihiro Yamada (1975). “The Widow's Tears”, p.59, Manchester University Press
-
-
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
-- George ChapmanSource : George Chapman, Hesiod, Musaeus (Grammaticus.), Juvenal (1858). “Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams”, p.135
You may also like:
-
Ben Jonson
Playwright -
Christopher Marlowe
Dramatist -
Edmund Spenser
Poet -
Francis Beaumont
Dramatist -
George Peele
Dramatist -
Homer
Author -
James Shirley
Dramatist -
John Fletcher
Playwright -
John Keats
Poet -
John Lyly
Writer -
John Marston
Poet -
John Webster
Dramatist -
Mathew Roydon
Poet -
Michael Drayton
Poet -
Philip Massinger
Dramatist -
Philip Sidney
Poet -
Samuel Daniel
Poet -
Thomas Heywood
Playwright -
Thomas Kyd
Dramatist -
Thomas Nashe
Playwright