Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
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Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.
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Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Love is a thyng as any spirit free. Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
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For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
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This flour of wifly patience.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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His studie was but litel on the Bible.
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For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
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So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.
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And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.