chap quotes

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

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

My dear chap! Good isn't the word!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
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.

- Stephen Hales
  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.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  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.