Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Geoffrey Chaucer(English - Poet)

 

1343 - October 25, 1400

 

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

 

 

 

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

 

 

 

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

 

 

 

We know little of the things for which we pray.

 

 

 

Time and tide wait for no man.

 

 

 

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

 

 

 

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

 

 

 

Love is blind.

 

 

 

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

 

 

 

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

 

 

 

By nature, men love newfangledness.

 

 

 

People can die of mere imagination.

 

 

 

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

 

 

 

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

 

 

 

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

 

 

 

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

 

 

 

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

 

 

 

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

 

 

 

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.