The Canterbury tales
A source page for quotes linked to Geoffrey Chaucer.
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“people have managed to marry without arithmetic”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Lost money is not lost beyond recall, But loss of time brings on the loss of all.”
“you are the cause by which I die”
Source: Canterbury Tales
“He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon.”
Source: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale. Edited With Introd. and Notes by A.W. Pollard
“And after winter folweth grene May.”
Source: Troilus and Criseyde
“doctors & druggists wash each other's hands”
Source: Canterbury Tales
Source: The Miller's Prologue and Tale
“Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot. He had the same small voice a goat has got”
Source: The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback
“you will not be master of my body & my property”
Source: The Canterbury tales
“His spirit chaunged house and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.”
Source: The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Source: The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Knight's Tale
Source: Troilus and Criseyde
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Every honest miller has a golden thumb.”
Source: The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby
“One eare it heard, at the other out it went.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Strike while the iron is hot.”
Source: Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation
“If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)
“Death is the end of every worldly pain.”
Source: Canterbury Tales (selected)
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.”
Source: The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition
Source: The Canterbury tales
“And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“The latter end of joy is woe.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary
“A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: Troilus and Cressida
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary. By Thomas Tyrwhitt. [With a Portrait.]
Source: Troilus and Cressida
Source: The Canterbury tales
“But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.”
“Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.”
“This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.”