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“The lady of the light, the rosy-fingered Morn,
Rose from the hills.”

Book I, line 460, p. 11
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)

“Promise is most given when the least is said.”

Musæus of Hero and Leander; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Man is a name of honour for a king.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

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

“What man can blame
The Greekes and Trojans to endure, for so admired a Dame,
So many miseries, and so long? In her sweet countenance shine
Lookes like the Godesses.”

Book III, line 167, p. 41
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)

“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

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

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

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

“Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.”

Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595), line 718.

“Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”

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

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

“For your behaviour, let it be free and negligent, not clogged with ceremony or observance; give no man honour, but upon equal terms; for look how much thou giv'st any man above that, so much thou tak'st from thyself.”

George Chapman May Day

May Day (1611), Act I, scene i.

“Fair words never hurt the tongue.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act IV, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”

Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654), Act I, scene ii, lines 208–209. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. Perhaps by George Peele.
Disputed

“There is no danger to the man that knows
What life and death is; there's not any law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.
He goes before them, and commands them all,
That to himself is a law rational.”

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

Act III, scene i.
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)

“To put a girdle round about the world.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

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

“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)

“As cedars beaten with continual storms,
So great men flourish; and do imitate
Unskilful statuaries, who suppose,
In forging a Colossus, if they make him
Straddle enough, strut, and look big, and gape,
Their work is goodly: so men merely great
In their affected gravity of voice,
Sourness of countenance, manners' cruelty,
Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of fortune,
Think they bear all the kingdom's worth before them,
Yet differ not from those colossic statues,
Which, with heroic forms without o'erspread,
Within are naught but mortar, flint and lead.”

George Chapman Bussy D'Ambois

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

“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act IV, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“An ill weed grows apace.”

George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth

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

“Words writ in waters.”

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

“I am ashamed the law is such an ass.”

Revenge for Honour, Act III, scene ii.
Disputed

“And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth?”

George Chapman The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.
The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois (1613)