Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Iron, Gold, Rust

• . . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Iron, Gold

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Thumbs, Golden

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

• Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Heart, Gold, Use

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1998). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Herds, All Things

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1867). “The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text”, p.485

• But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Als, Canterbury Tales

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 293

• If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Ifs

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 500

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