Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • True
  • Man
  • Miracle

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • High

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Community
  • Nice

• It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Make A Difference

• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Work
  • Real
  • Meet

• I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• My friendships are very important to me.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Me
  • Very

• My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Classic
  • Cheesy

• Sting is a father figure to us all.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Father
  • U.S.
  • Father figure

• Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Art
  • Worry
  • Feel

• Even though Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century who saw what must be the mainsprings of the extended order, Mises was the choice technician, and no one was better at articulating the primacy of the individual and the need to define and nurture individual rights.

  

  Vernon L. Smith

• As long as I was an actress, I was going to find related work in the industry. There were plenty of opportunities. And fortunately I'm just pushy enough to find and get myself in touch with those who can provide such opportunities.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Work
  • Long

• Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Life
  • Age

• Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • God
  • Career
  • Fall

• The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'

  

  Bryce Harper
  • God
  • Dad
  • Single

• The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer