chap quotes

Thepublic has always expectedmetobea playboyanda decent chap never lets his public down.

-Fo, Dario
Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

My dear chap! Good isn't the word!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
To an actor who had just given a very weak performance. Attributed.

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

-Hales, Stephen
  The Clockmaker (second series),'A Cure for Smuggling'.

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.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Scoop, bk.1, ch.5.

The Right Honwas atubby little chapwho looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!'

-Plum
  Very Good, Jeeves,'Jeeves and the Impending Doom'.

Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?

-Plum
  The Code of theWoosters, ch.2.

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