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“Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Source: Troilus and Criseyde

“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 book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

“Noght o word spak he more than was nede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence.
Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 305 - 310
Source: The Canterbury Tales
Context: Of studie took he most cure and most hede.
Noght o word spak he more than was nede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence.
Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

“… 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

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

“Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Monk's Tale, l. 3329
The Canterbury Tales
Source: The Riverside Chaucer

“the guilty think all talk is of themselves.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“all that glitters is not gold”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

“Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Squire's Tale, l. 594-95
The Canterbury Tales

“Love is a thyng as any spirit free.
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee,
And nat to been constreyned as a thral;
And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales

“Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Court of Love, line 178
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 72
The Canterbury Tales

“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
The Canterbury Tales

“Forbede us thing, and that desiren we;
Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee.
With daunger oute we al oure chaffare:
Greet prees at market maketh dere ware,
And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
The Canterbury Tales

“For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;
And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
Cometh al this newe science that men lere.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Parlement of Foules

Parlement of Foules, l. 22-25

“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay
To do the gentil dedes that he can,
And take him for the gretest gentilman.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6695
The Canterbury Tales

“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Parlement of Foules

Parlement of Foules, l. 379

“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 287
The Canterbury Tales