262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

But we’ll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old.

La moraleja de todas las tragedias es la misma: que la Fortuna siempre ataca a los reinos prepotentes cuando menos lo esperan.

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

But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?

Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar.

Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Shepherds too soft who let their duty sleep, Encourage wolves to tear the lambs and sleep.

One night the citizens of Rome revolted Against his tyrannies and mad ambition And, when he heard them mutiny, he bolted Alone and sought his friends for coalition. The more he knocked and begged them for admission The more they shut their doors and said him nay. And then he saw that of his own perdition He was sole author and he fled away. The people yelled for him and rumbled round So that their shouts were dinning in his ear: ‘Where’s Nero? Where’s the tyrant? Treacherous hound!

He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.