Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes - Page 2

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

A love grown old is not the love once new.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

We little know the things for which we pray.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

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

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

In the stars is written the death of every man.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

We know little of the things for which we pray.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

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

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

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

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

• Geoffrey Chaucer / Poet

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.