262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

A love grown old is not the love once new.

Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

. . . 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. . . .

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.