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Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge”

“People can die of mere imagination.”

“The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.”

“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire”

“The life so short, the crafts so long to learn”

“We little know the things for which we pray”

“She loved right from the first sight”

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

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

“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”

“Love is blind.”

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

... murder wol out

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

you will not be master of my body & my property

we know little of the things for which we pray

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

Then the Miller fell off his horse.