262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

Amor vincit omnia

Тот благороден, в ком есть благородство, А родовитость без него — уродство.

you will not be master of my body & my property

We’re like two dogs in battle on their own;They fought all day but neither got the bone,There came a kite above them, nothing loth,And while they fought he took it from them both."From Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale

This Nicholas anon leet fle a fartAs greet as it had been a thonder-dent,That with the strook he was almoost yblent;And he was redy with his iren hoot,And Nicholas amydde the ers he smoot.Of gooth the skyn an hande-brede aboute,The hoote kultour brende so his toute,And for the smert he wende for to dye.

Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.

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