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Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: desires, World, Love, Alone
“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: fiction, Writing, character, Love, Naked
“Who shall give a lover any law? Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Love, Lover, Law, Truth, Greater Law
“Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Love, Power, Rival, Time
“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Ready, Rotten, Ripe
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds
Tagged: Life, Craft, Learning, Time
“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Flaws, gold, Imperfection, Iron, Rust
“You will not be master of my body & my property.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Power, Independence, Courage
“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complete Poetry and Prose
Tagged: Knowledge, Wisdom, Scholar
“No empty handed man can lure a bird.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Tagged: Empty Handed, Lure, Temptation, Persuade
“It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Tagged: Hound, Sleep, Awake
“The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parlament of Foules
Tagged: Life, Art, Learning, Love
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