Canterbury Tales Quotes

• Patience is a conquering virtue.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Conquer, Virtue

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Middle English, Canterbury

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 308 (ca. 1387)

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• 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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• If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Iron, Gold, Rust

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• People can die of mere imagination.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  People, Imagination, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1956). “The Canterbury Tales”

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

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Time, Long

  The Parliament of Fowls l. 1 (1380 - 1386)

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• First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Teaching, Firsts, Taught

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1798). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.17

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• Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Lying, Men, Missing

  Geoffrey Chaucer, John Urban Nicolson (2015). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.242, Courier Corporation

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• With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Bird, Empty

  "The Canterbury Tales".

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• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thinking, Guilt, Shame

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Good Woman, Canterbury

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94

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• 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

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

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Als

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

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• I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

  Chris Ware

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

  Rick Moody

  Reading, Night, Cycling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Description, Prologue

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.65, MIRA

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