The Works of George Chapman: Plays
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“Of griefes (like Greeks on Ilion). Alas, what one survives To be my refuge?”
Source: The Iliad: by Homer
“now let humour give Seas to mine eyes, that I may quickly weep The shipwreck of the world”
“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”
Source: Eastward Ho!
“I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”
“Who to himself is law no law doth need; offends none and is king indeed.”
“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”
Source: The Widow's Tears
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“News as wholesome as the morning air.”
Source: Hero and Leander: A Poem
“Pure innovation is more gross than error.”
Source: Bussy D'ambois: George Chapman
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations
Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.”
“Fair words never hurt the tongue.”
Source: Eastward Ho!
“Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“He that shuns trifles must shun the world.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”
Source: Eastward Ho!
“Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”
Source: Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams
“There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.”
“Tis immortality to die aspiring.”
Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
“Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
Source: Comedies and Tragedies: Now First Collected with Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author
“Enough 's as good as a feast.”
Source: Eastward Ho!
“Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.”
Source: The Works of George Chapman: Plays
“An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
“Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.”
Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”