Geoffrey Chaucer quotes - page 3

There's never a new fashion but it's old. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. View quote
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. View quote
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If gold ruste, what shall iren do? View quote
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. View quote
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... 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.... View quote
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Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend. View quote
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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. View quote
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Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse. View quote
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. View quote
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A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love. View quote
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What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye. View quote
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But yet that holden this tale a folly, As of a fox, or of a cock and hen, Taketh the morality, good men. For Saint Paul saith that all that written is, To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis; Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still. View quote
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro. View quote
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Men sholde wedden after hir estat, For youthe and elde is often at debat. View quote
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede? View quote
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Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie. View quote
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swych licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. View quote
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And yet he had a thomb of gold parde. View quote
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For I am shave as neigh as any frere. But yit I praye unto youre curteisye: Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all. View quote
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His studie was but litel on the Bible. View quote
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This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, - That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught. View quote
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For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte. View quote
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