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
world this-world
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
farewell love-is gone-love
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
iron gold tin
I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. The firste spirit quiksilver called is, The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis, Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon. The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon: Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe, Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe, Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin, And Venus coper, by my fader kin!
gold thumbs golden
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
birthday time men
Time and tide wait for no man.
misty
For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.
canterbury-tales middle-english canterbury
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
truth men may
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
conquer virtue canterbury-tales
Patience is a conquering virtue.
walls-have-ears woods fields
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
science
Many small make a great.
patience desert answers
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
death pain ends
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
death war fighting
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.