Chaps Quotes

• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  Eric Bentley

  Maps, Biographies, Geography

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• The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  E. C. Bentley

  Art, Different, Maps

  'Biography for Beginners' (1905) introduction

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• I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

  Damon Runyon

  Baby, Clothes, Innovation

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Sleep, Organization

  "Philip Larkin's Everyday Poetry" by Henry Allen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 3, 1989.

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• Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

  Julie Christie

  America, Time Passing, Affair

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• They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Hate, Cowboy

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• Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

  Mark Twain

  Good Luck, Wish, Alive

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2446, GENERAL PRESS

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• In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Beauty, Interviews, Competing

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• News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

  Evelyn Waugh

  News, Care, Want

  Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

  Alex Cox

  Law, Study, Prime

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• The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

  Errol Flynn

  Playboy, Decent, Expected

  Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

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• Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

  Donald Barthelme

  Firsts, Enjoy, Wells

  Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, Father, Pay

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Evil

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• You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Bayonets, Bullets, Fool

  "Nauka pobezhdat" by Alexander Suvorov, 1806.

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• I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Greed, Arrogance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Thinking, Worst Moments

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Movie, Nice, People

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• A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  A. A. Gill

  Country, Believe, Mean

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• It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

  Leonard Cohen

  Elderly, Feelings, Way

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

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• People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Dark, Artist

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• I was taking my dog out the other day and I met this chap who asked me where I was going. The dog is foaming at the mouth, so I explained that I was on my way to the vet to have it put down. He asked if it was mad, to which I replied that it wasn't exactly pleased about it.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Dog, Mad

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• This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

  Jean Webster

  Heart, Keys, Turns

  Jean Webster (2009). “Just Patty”, p.195, The Floating Press

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