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George Chapman
129 quotes
“And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths, In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass, To put a girdle round about the world.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The old Scythians Painted blind Fortune’s powerful hands with wings, To show her gifts come swift and suddenly, Which, if her favourite be not swift to take, He loses them forever.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man, Unless he be a Politician?”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Speed his plough.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a deep nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Envy] is like a fly, That passes all the body’s soundest parts, And dwells upon the sore.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who to himself is law no law doth need, Offends no law, and is a king indeed.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Archers ever Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For as the light Not only serves to show, but render us Mutually profitable; so our lives, In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but do to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O the dangerous siege Sin lays about us! And the tyranny He exercises when he hath expung’d, Like to the horror of a winter’s thunder, Mix’d with a gushing storm; that suffers nothing To stir abroad on earth, but their own rages, Is sin, when it hath gather’d head above us: No roof, no shelter can secure us so, But he will drown our cheeks in fear or woe.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each natural agent works but to this end,— To render that it works on like itself.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True courtiers should be modest, and not nice; Bold, but not impudent; pleasure love, not vice.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is a name of honour for a king.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A politician must, like lightning, melt The very marrow, and not taint the skin: His ways must not be seen.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: James Shirley, Wits Labyrinth (1648), p. 27: "A Politician must (like lightning) melt the very marrow, yet not pierce the skinne.
“Danger, the spur of all great minds.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Terror of darkness! O, thou king of flames!”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh my fame, Live in despite of murder! Take thy wings And haste thee where the grey-eyed Morn perfumes Her rosy chariot with Sabæan spices! Fly, where the Evening from th’Iberian vales Takes on her swarthy shoulders Hecate, Crowned with a grove of oaks; fly where men feel The burning axletree, and those that suffer Beneath the chariot of the snowy Bear.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your wit is of the true Pierian spring, That can make anything of anything.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no danger to the man that knows What life and death is; there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law. He goes before them, and commands them all, That to himself is a law rational.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be free, all worthy spirits, And stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Innocence, the sacred amulet 'Gainst all the poisons of infirmity; Of all misfortune, injury, and death, That makes a man in tune still in himself; Free from the hell to be his own accuser, Ever in quiet, endless joy enjoying; No strife nor no sedition in his powers; No motion in his will against his reason, No thought 'gainst thought— But (all parts in him, friendly and secure, Fruitful of all best things in all worst seasons) He can with every wish be in their plenty; When the infectious guilt of one foul crime Destroys the free content of all our time.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember thine own verse: "Should heaven turn hell, For deeds well done, I would do ever well.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And let a scholar all Earth’s volumes carry, He will be but a walking dictionary.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wretched estate of men by fortune blest, That being ever idle never rest.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be wonder'd at Is Justice; for proportion, ornament, None of the graces is so excellent. Vile things adorn her: methought once I saw How by the sea's shore she sat giving law Even to the streams, and fish most loose and wild, And was, to my thoughts, wondrous sweet and mild; Yet fire blew from her that dissolvèd rocks; Her looks to pearl turn'd pebble; and her locks The rough and sandy banks to burnish'd gold; Her white left hand did golden bridles hold, And with her right she wealthy gifts did give, Which with their left hands men did still receive.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God hath made none (that all might be) contented.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And left so free mine ears, That I might hear the music of the spheres, And all the angels singing out of heaven.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that bears himself like a gentleman, is worthy to have been born a gentleman.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have watered our houses in Helicon.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sole friend to worth, And patroness of all good spirits, Confidence.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Up start as many aches in's bones, as there are ouches in his skin.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love me? Love my dog!”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“Men’s judgments sway on that side fortune leans.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The blind goddess of fools.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ll have no more beggars. Fools shall have wealth, and the learned shall live by his wits. I’ll have no more bankrupts.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A good man happy is a common good.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He would believe, since he would be believed; Your noblest natures are most credulous.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not to have want, what riches doth exceed? Not to be subject, what superior thing? He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need; Who breaks no law is subject to no king.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friendship is the cement of two minds, As of one man the soul and body is; Of which one cannot sever but the other Suffers a needful separation.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
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Recorded in: From Musæus, The Divine Poem of Musæus (1616), line 234
“Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave; To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lady of the light, the rosy-fingered Morn, Rose from the hills.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source