Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Men, Years

• And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Games, Noon

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”

• Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Hem, March

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 1 (ca. 1387)

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