Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
—George Chapman
Topics: Flattery, Candor, Friendship, Compliments
Our lives, by acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but do to others give matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
—George Chapman
Topics: Example
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
—George Chapman
Topics: Think, Now
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
—George Chapman
Topics: Danger
Man is a name of honor for a king; additions take away from each chief thing.
—George Chapman
Topics: Titles
And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
—George Chapman
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
—George Chapman
Topics: Pride
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.
—George Chapman
Topics: Passion
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman’s counsel.
—George Chapman
Topics: Advice
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
—George Chapman
Topics: Spirituality, Spirit
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
—George Chapman
Topics: Innovation
They’re only truly great who are truly good.
—George Chapman
Topics: Honesty, Wisdom, Greatness & Great Things, Character
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
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
—George Chapman
Topics: Murder
Promise is most given when the least is said.
—George Chapman
Topics: Promises
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
—George Chapman
Topics: Admiration
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
—George Chapman
Topics: Ancestry
Envy is like a fly that passes all a body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
—George Chapman
Topics: Envy
Marriage is ever made by destiny.
—George Chapman
Topics: Marriage
Your noblest natures are most credulous.
—George Chapman
O, innocence, the sacred amulet against all the poisons of infirmity, and all misfortunes, injury, and death.
—George Chapman
Topics: Innocence
Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
—George Chapman
Topics: Self-Control
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- John Fletcher English Dramatist
- Thomas Middleton English Dramatist
- Dennis Potter English Dramatist
- Charles Reade British Author
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) English Romantic Poet
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford English Poet, Courtier
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes English Poet
- Samuel Daniel English Poet
- Laurence Housman English Novelist, Dramatist
- John Galsworthy English Novelist, Playwright
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