Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes about Gold

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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

Geoffrey Chaucer

Men, Iron, Gold

Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Iron, Gold, Rust

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Gold, Thumbs, Golden

Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Heart, Gold, Use

Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1998). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Gold, Ifs

'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 500

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Gold, Herds, All Things

Geoffrey Chaucer (1867). “The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text”, p.485