Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

"He was as fresh as is the month of May."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: May)

"Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Age, Chastity, Old, Will)

"The life so short, the crafts so long to learn."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Life)

"Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Women, Wife, Bed, Desire, Husbands, Want)

"Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Soul, Body, Will)

"We know little of the things for which we pray."
- Geoffrey Chaucer

"And she was fair as is the rose in May."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: May)

"First he wrought, and afterward he taught."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: First)

"Murder will out, this my conclusion."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Murder, Will)

"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Desire)

"People can die of mere imagination."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Imagination, People)

"Time and tide wait for no man."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Time, Man)

"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Work, May)

"There's never a new fashion but it's old."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Fashion, Old)

"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: People)

"The guilty think all talk is of themselves."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Talk)

"Love is blind."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Love, Blind)

"By nature, men love newfangledness."
- Geoffrey Chaucer
(Related: Love, Men, Nature)