Chaps Quotes
70 quotes by 63 authors
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The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on…
— Roald Dahl
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The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
— Errol Flynn
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People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think…
— Michael Haneke
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I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your…
— Philip Larkin
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It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.
— Norman Wisdom
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You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
— Edmund Hillary
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Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not…
— Stevie Smith
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand…
— William Shakespeare
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and…
— C.S. Lewis
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Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't…
— C.S. Lewis
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so…
— E. M. Forster
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This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.
— Jean Webster
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We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued.…
— Jasper Fforde
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Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!
— Aleister Crowley
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Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that…
— Johanna Lindsey
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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The…
— Ray Bradbury
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Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but…
— Donald Barthelme
Who Wrote These Chaps Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 70 Chaps Quotes, led by these top contributors: