Thomas Chatterton: Man

Thomas Chatterton was English poet, forger. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Thomas Chatterton: 28 quotes 3 likes

“This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things.”

Thomas Chatterton

Samuel Johnson, April 29, 1776; reported by James Boswell, Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 752.
Criticism

Knowledge

“Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,
Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:
Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,
Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side.”

Thomas Chatterton

"The Defence", line 23.

Happiness

“He was an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age.”

Thomas Chatterton

Horace Walpole, letter to William Mason dated July 24, 1778; published in Horace Walpole (ed. William Hadley) Selected Letters (London: Everyman's Library, 1963) p. 191.
Criticism

Age