262 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

And for to see, and eek for to be seie.

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

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

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.