George Chapman: Making

George Chapman was English dramatist, poet, and translator. Explore interesting quotes on making.

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“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)

“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)

“O Innocence, the sacred amulet
'Gainst all the poisons of infirmity;
Of all misfortune, injury, and death,
That makes a man in tune still in himself;
Free from the hell to be his own accuser,
Ever in quiet, endless joy enjoying;
No strife nor no sedition in his powers;
No motion in his will against his reason,
No thought 'gainst thought—
But (all parts in him, friendly and secure,
Fruitful of all best things in all worst seasons)
He can with every wish be in their plenty;
When the infectious guilt of one foul crime
Destroys the free content of all our time.”

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

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

“Mourne not inevitable things; thy teares can spring no deeds
To helpe thee, nor recall thy sonne: impacience ever breeds
Ill upon ill, makes worst things worse.”

Book XXIV, line 494, p. 336
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)

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

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

“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)