“Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.”
Source: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
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Famous Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
“For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.”
Source: Troilus and Criseyde
“Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
“It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)
“But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)
“And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach”
Source: Canterbury Tales (selected)
“One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.”
“What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation
“Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales ... From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Condensed and Arranged Under the Text. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas A. W. Buckley.] Illustrated by Edward Corbould
“To keep demands as much skill as to win.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales: To Which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, in three volumes
“The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary
Source: The Canterbury Tales: To Which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, in three volumes