Swift men of foot, whose broad-set backs their trailing hair did hide.
George Chapman Quotes
d. 1634 England
George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
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Also known as: Chapman, George
123 quotes
Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.
Homer's Odysses (1614)
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
God hath made none (that all might be) contented.
Euthymiae Raptus; or The Tears of Peace (1609)
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Hero and Leander (1600)
Women are most won, when men merit least.
Hero and Leander (1600)
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies.
The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
The Widow's Tears (1612)
Terror of darkness! O, thou king of flames!
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Nothing so sweete is as our countrie’s earth,
And joy of those from whom we claime our birth.
Homer's Odysses (1614)
And let a Scholler, all earths volumes carrie,
He will be but a walking dictionarie.
Wretched estate of men by fortune blest,
That being ever idle never rest.
Euthymiae Raptus; or The Tears of Peace (1609)
There is a deep nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)
Sole friend to worth,
And patroness of all good spirits, Confidence.
The Widow's Tears (1612)
Eastward Hoe (1605)
Love's special lesson is to please the eye.
Hero and Leander (1600)
And eat your entrails out with ecstacies.
Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.
Hero and Leander (1600)
Ill may a sad mind forge a merry face,
Nor hath constrainèd laughter any grace.
Hero and Leander (1600)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Chapman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.