| 43 Famous Quotes by George Chapman
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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.”
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“Enough is as good as a feast.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act III, sc. 2), written by Chapman, Jonson, Marston
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“Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Sir Gyles Goosecappe
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“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“As good as a play.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“A nail in the wound.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To have a smattering knowledge of anything.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by
some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.”
Proverbial phrases Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“Words writ in waters.”
Words Quotes Source: Revenge for Honour (act V, sc. 2)
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“Who to himself is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”
Law Quotes 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 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 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 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 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 Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292)
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“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
Pearls Quotes Source: An Humorous Day's Mirth
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“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 Source: All Fools (act I, sc. 1)
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“Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.”
Murder Quotes 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 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 Source: Bussy d'Ambois (act I, sc. 1)
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“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
Jewels Quotes Source: An Humorous Day's Mirth
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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 Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1)
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“There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.”
Opportunity Quotes Source: Bussy d'Ambois
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