Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer Famous Quotes & Sayings
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more.
If gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust ...
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.
A Knight's Tale
A Knight's Tale
Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.
But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?
Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!
Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.