262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.

All good things must come to an end.

And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

People can die of mere imagination.