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
deeds gentle
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
mind-love stories kind
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
winning men years
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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.
love-is wonder be-good
If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
desire
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
science men corn
For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.
firsts taught twelve
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
spiritual heart journey
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
husband desire lovers
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
littles
In love there is but little rest.
jolly
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.