George Chapman quotes

George Chapman was an English playwright, poet, and translator during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. His translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are regarded as major achievements in English literature. He influenced many contemporaries and contributed significantly to the development of English drama. Here are 71 of his quotes:

They're only truly great who are truly good. (George Chapman)
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. View quote
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. View quote
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. View quote
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Promise is most given when the least is said. View quote
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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. View quote
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I am ashamed the law is such an ass. View quote
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Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance. View quote
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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'... View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (George Chapman)
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. View quote
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fair words never hurt the tongue. View quote
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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. View quote
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An ill weed grows apace. View quote
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Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. View quote
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Words writ in waters. View quote
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I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts. View quote
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And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy. (George Chapman)
Make ducks and drakes with shillings. View quote
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Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself. View quote
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So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. View quote
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Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. View quote
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George Chapman

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: 1559
Died: May 12, 1634
Quotes count: 71
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