George Chapman: Virtue

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

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“I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act I, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.”

George Chapman All Fools

Act I, scene i.
All Fools (1605)

“Great goddess, to whose throne in Cynthian fires,
This earthly altar endless fumes expires;
Therefore, in fumes of sighs and fires of grief,
To fearful chances thou send'st bold relief,
Happy, thrice happy type, and nurse of death,
Who, breathless, feeds on nothing but our breath,
In whom must virtue and her issue live,
Or die for ever.”

Hymnus in noctem, line 1
The Shadow of Night (1594)

“Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates
(As curious ladies do, their public cates),
This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,
The dreadful presence of our empress sings:
Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)
Till virtue flourish in the light of light.”

Hymnus in noctem, line 398
The Shadow of Night (1594)

“Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her
Is righted even when men grant they err.”

George Chapman Monsieur D'Olive

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

“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)