18 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.
- 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.
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