Top quotes by George Chapman

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. Votes: 22

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. Votes: 21

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. Votes: 14

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. Votes: 12

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure. Votes: 10

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. Votes: 8

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. Votes: 8

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel. Votes: 7

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

He that shuns trifles must shun the world. Votes: 6

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? Votes: 6

Fair words never hurt the tongue. Votes: 6

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good. Votes: 5

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts. Votes: 5

Ignorance is the mother of admiration Votes: 4

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. Votes: 4

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. Votes: 3

Danger, the spur of all great minds. Votes: 3

Enough 's as good as a feast. Votes: 3

Fate's such a shrewish thing. Votes: 3

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. Votes: 2

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. Votes: 2

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. Votes: 2

An ill weed grows apace. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. Votes: 0

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best. Votes: 0

Ignorance is the mother of admiration. Votes: 0

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. Votes: 0

Make ducks and drakes with shillings. Votes: 0

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance. Votes: 0

News as wholesome as the morning air. Votes: 0

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought. Votes: 0

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'... Votes: 0

Promise is most given when the least is said. Votes: 0

Pure innovation is more gross than error. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward. Votes: 0

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster. Votes: 0

They're only truly great who are truly good. Votes: 0

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. Votes: 0

Tis immortality to die aspiring. Votes: 0

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. Votes: 0

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none. Votes: 0

Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed. Votes: 0

Words writ in waters. Votes: 0

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. Votes: 0

Love is Natures second sun. Votes: 0

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. Votes: 0