Quotes by George Chapman
- I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
- Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
- 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 no law, and is a king indeed.
- We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
- They're only truly great who are truly good.
- Promise is most given when the least is said.
- Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
- For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
- Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
- 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.
- Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
- An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
- Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
- Pure innovation is more gross than error.
- He that shuns trifles must shun the world.