“And after winter folweth grene May.”
Source: Troilus and Criseyde
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Famous Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“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: The Canterbury tales
“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Source: The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...
“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”
Source: The Legend of Good Women: Easyread Large Edition
“There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.”
“Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.”
Source: The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
“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
Source: The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer
“What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.”
Source: The Canterbury tales