George Chapman Quotes

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• Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

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  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231

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• The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

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  Failure, Responsibility, Order

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• The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

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  Way, Accomplish, Best Way

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• Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

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  Men, Thinking, Age

  All Fools act 5, sc. 1 (1605)

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• We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

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  Our Actions, Action, Worthy

  George Chapman, James Shirley (1824). “The Ball”, p.66

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• 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.

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  Men, Her Beauty, Littles

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• Love is Natures second sun.

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  Love, Love Is, Sun

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.48

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• Fair words never hurt the tongue.

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  Hurt, Tongue, Fairness

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Promise is most given when the least is said.

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  Keeping Promises, Kept Promises, Said

  George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.98

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• 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.

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  Song, Courage, Yield

  Eastward Ho act 5, sc. 1 (1605).

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• An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

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  Lambs, Lions, Englishmen

  'Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany' (1654) act 1

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• 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.

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  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

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  Pride, Shame

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Danger, the spur of all great minds.

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  Mind, Spurs, Great Minds

  The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois act 5, sc. 1 (1613)

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• Tis immortality to die aspiring.

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  Ambition, Immortality, Dies

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.83, Manchester University Press

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• Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.

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  Wise, Business, Light

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.452

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• Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

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  Archer, Men, Two

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.150

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• They're only truly great who are truly good.

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  Kindness, Greatness, Spirituality

  'Revenge for Honour' (1654) act 5, sc. 2, last line

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• 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.

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  Giving, Honor, Way

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• As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

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  Stars, Night, Soul

  George Chapman, Hesiod, Musaeus (Grammaticus.), Juvenal (1858). “Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams”, p.135

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• Fate's such a shrewish thing.

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  Fate

  1611 The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, bk.4, l.21.

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• An ill weed grows apace.

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  Weed, Ill, Grows

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.37

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• There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

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  Opportunity, Men, Wheels

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• Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

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  Men, Virtuous Woman, Virtuous

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• He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

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  World, Trifles

  George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.70

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