43 Famous Quotes by George Chapman
- 5/12/1634
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About George Chapman
George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets of the 17th century. Chapman is best remembered for his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and the Homeric Batrachomyomachia.
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.
Beauty
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: All Fools (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Extremes
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Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.
Law
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act II, sc. 1)
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His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
Deeds
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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So our lives
In acts exemplarie, not only winne
Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give
Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.
Deeds
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.
Action
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (act V, sc. 1)
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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.
Business
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.
Folly
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292)
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Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Murder
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: The Widow's Tears (act V, sc. IV)
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Each natural agent works but to this end,--
To render that it works on like itself.
Work
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act III, sc. 1)
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His deeds inimitable, like the Sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of Precedent for poore men's facts.
Opinion
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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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.
Fortune
Quotes, by George Chapman , Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1)
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