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
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.
rose royalty
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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.
gold als canterbury-tales
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
hounds
It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.
devil damnation way
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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.
wrens
And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
gold herds all-things
But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
joy woe latter
The latter end of joy is woe.