Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Page 3

“Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence.”

“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”

“We know little of the things for which we pray.”

“Well did he know the taverns in every town, and every hosteller and bar-maid, far better than he knew any leper or beggar.”

“Who shall give a lover any law?’ Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”

“Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point.”

“Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye,”

“Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.”

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”

“Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.”

“And after winter folweth grene May.”

“Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.”

“The harm that’s in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.”

“Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.”

“Woe to him who is alone, since, if he falls, he has no help to rise.”