(12 quotes found)
“What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.”
Hugh Kingsmill
“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
“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
“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.”
Errol Flynn
“A chap ort t' save a few o' the' long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married”
Kin Hubbard
“A bowler can make or break a chap.”
John Newton
“Einstein was a really interesting guy. He wasn't some dutiful little chap who went through the academic system and did everything proper. He had an enormous ego -- any lesser ego would have given up. He publishes this stuff and nobody pays attention for four years, but he is possessed -- and that's what makes him hell to be with as a human.”
Gary Johnstone
“Where is your bat? ... You're a handsome young chap you know.”
Nelson Mandela
“I've never met anyone who describes himself as a motorist, a noun that conjures up a chap with a moustache and leather driving gloves in an open-topped roadster.”
Joan Smith
“Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.”
Kingsley Amis
