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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
I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb! -- MC Lars
Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough."Vol 1 Chap 4 -- Atsuko Asano
What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out. -- John Gimlette
A bowler can make or break a chap. -- John Newton
David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day! -- Douglas Booth
It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap. -- Norman Wisdom
When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am. -- Luke Goss
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. -- Errol Flynn
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. -- Alex Cox
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. -- Allan Massie
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. -- Richard Hammond
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!' -- P. G. Wodehouse
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. -- Evelyn Waugh
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 much handsomer than I. -- Edward G. Robinson
I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger. -- Luke Goss
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 the same page in order to get to the next chap. -- Flavor Flav
I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap. -- Fergus Henderson
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 by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper. -- Damon Runyon
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 it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist. -- Michael Haneke
I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track. -- Fergus Henderson
So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American. -- Adam Rayner
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. -- Gin Wigmore
I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back. -- Matt Ridley
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 a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore. -- Roald Dahl
Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home. -- Billy Evans
When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it. -- Sara Sheridan
The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap. -- Alexander Suvorov
Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying. -- A. S. Byatt
A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society. -- Christopher Hitchens
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. -- Evelyn Waugh
A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it. -- John Towner Williams
This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key. -- Jean Webster
We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27 -- L.M. Montgomery
I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him. -- Edward Bernds
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it. -- Stephen Hales
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. -- Ambrose Bierce
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. -- Adam Hart-Davis
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. -- Allan Massie
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
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all. -- William Morris
Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually. -- Frank Warren
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
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills. -- Oscar Wilde
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)... -- C. S. Lewis
Above us, the moon hangs like a fat blister on the feel of the sky, ready to burst in a spray of viscous white pus"chap 22." -- Jonathan Tropper
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 you? -- C. S. Lewis
I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you! -- Charles Dickens
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.' -- William Golding
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 run if you show a brave front. -- William W. Atkinson
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 run if you show a brave front. -- William W. Atkinson
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 was alive. I wish they were used more. -- Mark Twain
I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey. -- Noel Whitcomb
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 myself acting out my life like a goddamn script. -- Errol Flynn

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