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Famous Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
“That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.”
“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
“And brought of mighty ale a large quart.”
“Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.”
“Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.”
“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”
“Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!”
“Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.”
“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”
“This flour of wifly patience.”
“For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.”
“Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.”
“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”
“To maken vertue of necessite.”
“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”
“But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”
“Hyt is not al golde that glareth.”
“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.”
“The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.”