Chaps Quotes
70 quotes by 63 authors
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I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you…
— Kishore Kumar
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
— Alex Cox
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Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese,…
— Hugh Laurie
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he…
— Mark Twain
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GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps…
— Rowan Pelling
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Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but…
— Julie Christie
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In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and…
— Edward G. Robinson
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The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
— Charles James
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Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will…
— William Walker Atkinson
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Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This…
— Danny Baker
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
— Eric Bentley
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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired…
— Damon Runyon
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The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been…
— Peter Medawar
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity…
— Alfonso X of Castile
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on…
— Flavor Flav
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
— E. C. Bentley
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You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch…
— Errol Flynn
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Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your…
— A. E. Housman
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