George Chapman Quotes & Sayings

#1. 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.

George Chapman

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

George Chapman

#3. 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.

George Chapman

#4. I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

George Chapman

#5. Pure innovation is more gross than error.

George Chapman

#6. Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

George Chapman

#7. They're only truly great who are truly good.

George Chapman

#8. Promise is most given when the least is said.

George Chapman

#9. Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

George Chapman

#10. Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

George Chapman

#11. Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

George Chapman

#12. He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

George Chapman

#13. Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.

George Chapman

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

George Chapman

#15. Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.

George Chapman

#16. News as wholesome as the morning air.

George Chapman

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

George Chapman

#18. And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

#19. Fair words never hurt the tongue.

George Chapman

#20. For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

George Chapman

#21. 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.

George Chapman