Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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This flour of wifly patience.
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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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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For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!
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So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.
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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.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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By nature, men love newfangledness.
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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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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.