262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.

Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?

Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Just as there never died a man,” quoth he, “But he had lived on earth in some degree, Just so there never lived a man,” he said, “In all this world, but must be sometime dead. This world is but a thoroughfare of woe, And we are pilgrims passing to and fro;.

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

The man who has no wife is no cuckold.

A faithful servant is more diligent in keeping your goods safe than is your own wife, because she will claim a half part of your worth all her life.

Purity in body and heart May please some – as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.