Quotes By Geoffrey Chaucer

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

People can die of mere imagination.

Time and tide wait for no man.

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

Love is blind.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Murder will out, this my conclusion.

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.