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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
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 sepulcherOf 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
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
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
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
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
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
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people
— Geoffrey Chaucer
all that glitters is not gold,
— Geoffrey Chaucer