Geoffrey Chaucer
An English poet and writer, widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
The verray preef of every werk is the endynge.
For of the soule the body is the shethe, And though that oon be deed, the other brethe.
And al be that I no can but telle a tale, I pray to God, for his grace, that I may telle it wel.
Therfore, ye men that maken this world newe, Gooth, taketh on you the mantel of humblesse.
For evere the ner the feend, the ferther fro God.
And trewely, as I gesse, I was born under the signe of Venus.
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
Forbid us thing that we desiren.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Time and tide wait for no man.
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
The proverb seith that 'manye smale maken a greet'.
Love is blynde.
Out of the olde feldis, as men seith, Cometh al this newe corn fro yer to yere.
Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
The wordes that come out of hir mouth shal been swich as shal enforce hem to synne.
Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir love.
Peyne and wo is me bygon.
Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake.
O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere Adaweth al the place.