Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Best Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer (Top 10)

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey Chaucer
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer
No empty handed man can lure a bird
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
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Many small make a great.
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Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Love is blynde.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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