Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, School

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Holes, Wit

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1830). “The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and Versification (etc.) - London, William Pickering 1830”, p.125

• Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
  Of man's wit and his discretion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Wit, Drunkenness

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