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✵ 1559 – 12. květen 1634
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George Chapman citát: „Mladí lidé si myslí, že staří jsou blázni, ale staří lidé vědí, že mladí jsou blázni.“

George Chapman: Citáty anglicky

“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“The sea had soaked his heart through”

Homer's Odysses (1614), Book V, line 608; shipwrecked Odysseus washes up on Scheria.
Kontext: Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both
His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth
His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath
Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death.
The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veins
His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains.
Dead weary was he.

“Danger (the spur of all great minds) is ever
The curb to your tame spirits.”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act V, scene i.

“Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic”

Book I, line 1, p. 1
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
Kontext: Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that imposed
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loosed
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect; from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son.

“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”

George Chapman The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)

“Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.”

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher

The Gentleman Usher, Act IV, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Enough 's as good as a feast.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act III, scene ii.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“They're only truly great who are truly good.”

Revenge for Honour, Act V, scene ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Disputed

“He that to nought aspires, doth nothing need;
Who breaks no law is subject to no king.”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613), Act IV, scene i.

“As night the life-inclining stars best shows,
So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Epilogue to Translations; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

Act II, scene i.
Bussy D'Ambois (1607)

“None ever loved but at first sight they loved.”

George Chapman The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Compare: "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (1598).

“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still.”

George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive

Monsieur D'Olive, Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”

George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth

An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).