He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
-
-
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
A love grown old is not the love once new.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
In love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
We little know the things for which we pray.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER