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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. -- Eric Bentley
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 wife. -- Philip Larkin
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 stayed because of these chaps. -- Julie Christie
They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy. -- Michael Biehn
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
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. -- E. C. Bentley
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. -- Alex Cox
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. -- Errol Flynn
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it. -- Stephen Hales
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
Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business. -- Dana Gould
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
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
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
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
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 get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here -- Kishore Kumar
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 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
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings. -- Kingsley Amis
As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36); (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-, (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82); (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107). -- Craig A. Evans
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, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit. -- Hugh Laurie
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
The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. -- Henry Lawson
I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin. -- Nicholas Haslam
But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age. -- Christopher Cockerell
President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps. -- Greg Proops
All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps. -- Charles Sorley
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
Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace. -- Karl Marx
Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule. -- Poe Ballantine
I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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 also because I enjoy it. -- Donald Barthelme
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, I don't know what will. -- C. S. Lewis
I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know? -- Katy Perry

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