Geoffrey Chaucer quotes

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, author, and diplomat, often called the "Father of English literature." His most famous work, "The Canterbury Tales," greatly influenced the development of the English language and storytelling. He is celebrated for his vivid characters, wit, and insight into medieval society. Here are 110 of his quotes:

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. View quote
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Make a virtue of necessity. View quote
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people can die of mere imagination. View quote
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire. View quote
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe. View quote
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For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere. View quote
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Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. View quote
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe. View quote
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. View quote
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May. View quote
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Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente. View quote
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves. View quote
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. View quote
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It is nought good a sleping hound to wake. View quote
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds. View quote
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But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself. View quote
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke. View quote
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Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie! View quote
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For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie. View quote
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. View quote
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That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune. View quote
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. View quote
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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: 1343
Died: October 16, 1400
Quotes count: 110
Wikipedia: Geoffrey Chaucer

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