Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

• Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
• He was as fresh as is the month of May.
• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
• The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
• Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
• We know little of the things for which we pray.
• And she was fair as is the rose in May.
• First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
• Murder will out, this my conclusion.
• Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
• People can die of mere imagination.
• Time and tide wait for no man.
• There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
• There's never a new fashion but it's old.
• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
• Love is blind.
• By nature, men love newfangledness.