Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
By nature, men love newfangledness.
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
The bisy larke, messager of day.
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
People can die of mere imagination.
And she was fayr as is the rose in May.
Love is blind.
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro; Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
I wolde no lenger in the bed abide If that I felte his arm over my side,...
Where can ye saye in any manere age That hye God defended mariage...
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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