Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

. . . 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. . . .

Gold

Iron

Men

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‘My lige lady, generally,’ quod he, ‘Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.’

Love

Wells

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A love grown old is not the love once new.

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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

School

Wisdom

Wise

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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Kind

Mind Love

Stories

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Abstinence is approved of God.

Abstinence

Approved

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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Sin

Venus

Youth

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All good things must come to an end.

Good Night

Goodnight

Sad

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And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

Book

Games

Noon

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And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Ale

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