| 49 Famous Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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“Every honest miller has a golden thumb.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales, old saying
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“For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 443)
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“And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.”
Gold Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 563)
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“For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of old bokis, in good fey,
Comyth al this newe science that men lere.”
Age Quotes Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 21)
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“Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.”
Fire Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 3,881), The Reeve's Tale
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“Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
And namely that that to us alle is due.”
Necessity Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 2,182), The Knight's Tale
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“The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.”
Tongue Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 18,213), The Manciple's Tale
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“Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .”
Marriage Quotes Source: Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue
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“Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.”
Marriage Quotes Source: Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue
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“The thrustelcok made eek hir lay,
The wode dove upon the spray
She sang ful loude and cleere.”
Doves Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Sir Thopas
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“The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.”
Lapwings Quotes Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 47)
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“In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.”
Quail Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 13,541), The Clerk's Tale
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“The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.”
Swans Quotes Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 342)
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“It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.”
Dogs Quotes Source: Troilus and Criseyde (III, 764)
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“That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and floure of floures alle.”
Daisies Quotes Source: The Legend of Good Women (l. 184)
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“That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.”
Daisies Quotes Source: The Legend of Good Women (l. 41)
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“For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in prosperite,
And it remembren whan it passed is.”
Sorrow Quotes Source: Troilus and Criseyde (bk. III, l. 1,625)
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“And for to se, and eek for to be seye.”
Sight Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 6,134), The Wife of Bath's Tale
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“Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”
Devil Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 602), The Squire's Tale
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“The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.”
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“First he wrought, and afterward he taught.”
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“She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.”
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“Love is blynde.”
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“Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.”
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