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Quotes from Bussy D'Ambois — George Chapman

d. 1634 England

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Who to himself is law no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Each natural agent works but to this end,—
To render that it works on like itself.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

'Tis leap-year, lady, and therefore very good to enter a courtier.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

True courtiers should be modest, and not nice;
Bold, but not impudent; pleasure love, not vice.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream
But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Where the king's change doth breed the subject's terror,
Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

A politician must, like lightning, melt
The very marrow, and not taint the skin:
His ways must not be seen.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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?

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Terror of darkness! O, thou king of flames!

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

There is a deep nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Man is a name of honour for a king.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

This was a sleight well mask'd. O, what is man,
Unless he be a Politician?

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

[Envy] is like a fly,
That passes all the body’s soundest parts,
And dwells upon the sore.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

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.

Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Chapman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.