| 49 Famous Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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“The guilty think all talk is of themselves”
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“Many a smale maketh a grate.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
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“Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 1,522), The Knight's Tale
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“So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 4,155), The Reeve's Tale
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“And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.”
Learning Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 308)
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“For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.”
Secrecy Quotes Source: The Ten Commandments of Love (41)
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“Frieth in his own grease.”
Punishment Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (V, 6069), The Wife of Bath's Tale
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“Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.”
Roses Quotes Source: The Romaunt of the Rose
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“I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]”
Roses Quotes Source: The Romaunt of the Rose
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“But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve
He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.”
Preaching Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 527)
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“And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.”
Drinking Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 3,497), The Miller's Tale
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“He koude songes make and well endite.”
Poets Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 95)
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“This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.”
Example Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 496)
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“Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.”
Patience Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (V, l. 13,254), The Clerk's Tale
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“Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.”
Murder Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 15,058), The Nun's Priest's Tale
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“Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily.
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.”
Work Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 585), The Merchant's Tale
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“Nowher so besy a man as he ther was,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
Work Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 321)
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“But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.”
Appearance Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 17,362), The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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“Hyt is not al golde that glareth.”
Appearance Quotes Source: The House of Fame (bk. I, l. 272)
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“Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no
knight.”
Appearance Quotes Source: Testament of Love (bk. II), (Thomas Usk, Chaucer's contemporary, is generally accepted as author)
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“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
Scripture Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 4)
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“Of harmes two the less is for to chose.”
Choice Quotes Source: Troilus and Criseyde (bk. II, l, 470)
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“It is not good a sleping hound to wake.”
Sleep Quotes Source: Troilus and Criseyde (I, 640)
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“Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.”
Nature Quotes Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 379)
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“One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”
Hearing Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (bk. IV, l. 435)
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