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Geoffrey Chaucer
114 quotes
“Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In his owen grese I made him frie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And for to see, and eek for to be seie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“This flour of wifly patience.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They demen gladly to the badder end.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone, That shall eat with a fend.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I am right sorry for your heavinesse.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Haste maketh waste.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Good to be merie and wise.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Look ere ye leape.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The fat is in the fire.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When the sunne shineth, make hay.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hold their noses to grinstone.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“When all candles bee out, all cats be gray.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The neer to the church, the further from God.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Better is to bow then breake.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.”
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) said by 1400 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source