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
winning skills demand
To keep demands as much skill as to win.
complaining want breathe
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
prayer littles praying
We know little of the things for which we pray.
poverty rich poor
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
thankfulness looks look-up
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
teaching firsts taught
First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
fate handsome talent
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
hearing heard
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
marriage wife curiosity
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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.
world ifs manly
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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.
brother politics dear
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.