Quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer

That "feeld hath eyen, and the wode hath eres."

Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,And every speche that ys spoken,Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,In his substaunce ys but air.

For gold in phisik is a cordial,Therefore he lovede gold in special.

And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.

That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that men may kepe.

Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.

She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mousKaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

O stormy peple! unsad and evere untrewe!

A womman cast hir shame away,Whan she cast of hir smok.

Ye, fare wel al the snow of ferne yere!

A Frere ther was, a wantowne and a merye.

Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so?And if love is, what thing and which is he?If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

He koude songes make and wel endyte.

Whan that Aprille with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Love is noght oold as whan that it is newe.

Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake.

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