Top 30 Chap Quotes

In 1978, I was in Paris – I was in someone’s car and listening to the radio – and on comes Paco de Lucia. I’d never heard of this chap, and I just thought, ‘I have to meet him.’ And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

My mother taught me to appreciate a good drugstore beauty aisle. I regularly use Aquaphor, Chap Stick, Purpose Face Soap, and Aveeno body moisturizer.

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.

I’m not the sort of chap who can sit down and write music. When it comes, I’m happy.

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.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He’s the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

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.

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.

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.

Cold Chisel had their moments, but basically, they were all decent, quiet chaps. I was just a lunatic. Those guys didn’t know what had hit them when I joined the band.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

I don’t believe in Chap Stick, I’m going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It’s just too much sometimes.

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.

A chap was digging a pond for his carp in the garden behind his terraced house in the small town of Raunds, when he unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon body. Because he’d seen ‘Time Team’, he knew exactly what to do with it – he cleaned it very respectfully and then called the local archaeologist, who called us in.

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.

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.

He’s a very natural chap. The public David Essex is the same as the private one. He’s laid-back, charming, funny. There’s no side to him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m prepared to mentor any political group, even PAP chaps can come to me, I’ll still mentor them. Because the objective must be very clear: you want to train people who will be good MPs. MPs who will think of Singapore first.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.