Quotes by George Chapman

George Chapman

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

Englishmen

Lambs

Lions

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.

Fiction

Soul

Tragedy

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

Archer

Men

Two

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

Blood

Eye

Sleep

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.

Doe

Hatred

Too Much

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Fairness

Hurt

Tongue

Fate’s such a shrewish thing.

Fate

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

Heat

Passion

Stills

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.

Life

Running

Wind

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

Action

Ends

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Born

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Doe

Dream

Ends

Englishmen

Errors

Eye

Failure

Fairness

Fate

Fear

Fiction

Flower

Hatred

Heat

Heaven

Hurt

Ignorance

Immortality

Kings

Lambs

Law

Life

Light

Lions

Lovers

Meaning Something

Men

Morning

Mother

Needs

News

Oratory

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Perfect

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Quotes by George Chapman

George Chapman

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

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

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.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Fate’s such a shrewish thing.

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

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.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

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