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Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“By God, if women had written stories,
As clerks had within here oratories,
They would have written of men more wickedness
Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Tagged: Stories, Inequality, Dishonesty, Storytelling, Writing
“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlament of Foules
Tagged: Life, Art, Learning, Love
“I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Chanticleer and the Fox
Tagged: Singing, Song, Emptiness, Darkness
“A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Faithful, Servant, Service
“You will not be master of my body & my property.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Power, Independence, Courage
“Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Love, Power, Rival, Time
“We know little of the things for which we pray.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Pray, Ignorance, Knowledge
“Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Love, Lover, Law, Truth, Greater Law
“Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Youth, Age, Wisdom, wit
“O woman’s counsel is so often cold!
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go
Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Woman, Counsel
“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Ready, Rotten, Ripe
“What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: desires, World, Love, Alone
“It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Tagged: Hound, Sleep, Awake
“And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Learning, Teaching
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: fiction, Writing, character, Love, Naked
“No empty handed man can lure a bird.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Empty Handed, Lure, Temptation, Persuade
“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complete Poetry and Prose
Tagged: Knowledge, Wisdom, Scholar
“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Flaws, gold, Imperfection, Iron, Rust
“People can die of mere imagination.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Imagination, Death
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
Tagged: Life, Craft, Learning, Time
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