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So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true. — Geoffrey Chaucer

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Hyt is not al golde that glareth. — Geoffrey Chaucer

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold ruste, what shall iren do? — Geoffrey Chaucer

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The man who has no wife is no cuckold. — Geoffrey Chaucer

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. — Susan Hill

Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl. Nobody wants to run laps. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Then the Miller fell off his horse. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Death is the end of every worldly pain. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Abstinence is approved of God. — Geoffrey Chaucer

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space. — Geoffrey Chaucer

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold. — Geoffrey Chaucer

people can die of mere imagination — Geoffrey Chaucer

No empty handed man can lure a bird — Geoffrey Chaucer

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. — Geoffrey Chaucer

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. — Geoffrey Chaucer

By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word,
Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord! — Geoffrey Chaucer

you will not be master of my body & my property — Geoffrey Chaucer

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. — Geoffrey Chaucer

One eare it heard, at the other out it went. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw? — Geoffrey Chaucer

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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 ... — Geoffrey Chaucer

Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye! — Geoffrey Chaucer

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For thus men seyth, That on thenketh the beere,
But al another thenketh his ledere. — Geoffrey Chaucer

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And after winter folweth grene May. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult. — Geoffrey Chaucer

With emptie hands men may no haukes lure. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is. — Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? — Geoffrey Chaucer

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The bisy larke, messager of day. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme y-lost may not recovered be. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie! — Geoffrey Chaucer

If were not foolish young, were foolish old. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a common man should rust
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales- — Geoffrey Chaucer

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. — Geoffrey Chaucer

it's like being attacked by a RAT! — Chaucer Geoffrey

There's never a new fashion but it's old. — Geoffrey Chaucer

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip. — John Hutton

And she was fair as is the rose in May. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The smylere with the knyf under the cloke. — Geoffrey Chaucer

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do. — Geoffrey Chaucer

By nature, men love newfangledness. — Geoffrey Chaucer

And brought of mighty ale a large quart. — Geoffrey Chaucer

What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the everyday. — John Mark Reynolds

And shame it is, if that a priest take keep, To see a shitten shepherd and clean sheep: — Geoffrey Chaucer

have you killed me, false thief? — Chaucer Geoffrey

The latter end of joy is woe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Make a virtue of necessity. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis;
Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is. — Geoffrey Chaucer

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess,
Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. — Geoffrey Chaucer

You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. — Mary McCarthy

Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. — Geoffrey Chaucer

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye. — Geoffrey Chaucer

All good things must come to an end. — Geoffrey Chaucer

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean. — Geoffrey Chaucer

But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34? — Geoffrey Chaucer

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom

Charlotte, N.C., 273 Chastity belt, 55 Chaucer, Geoffrey, — Gay Talese

You are the cause by which I die. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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! — Geoffrey Chaucer

And once he had got really drunk on wine,
Then he would speak no language but Latin. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man. — Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. — Geoffrey Chaucer

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her. — John Dryden

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people — Geoffrey Chaucer

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

all that glitters is not gold, — Geoffrey Chaucer