Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

All good things must come to an end.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Time and tide wait for no man.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.

Strike while the iron is hot.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

Many small make a great.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Mercy surpasses justice.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.