Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Geoffrey Chaucer quotes about
kindness als kind
Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
hounds
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
holes wit
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
wrens
And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
mind-love stories kind
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
venus youth sin
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.
sauce woe culinary
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
time may
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
jolly
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
jest true-words
Many a true word is spoken in jest
als appearance
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
ale
And brought of mighty ale a large quart.
welcome
Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.
flour
This flour of wifly patience.