Geoffrey Chaucer: Gold

Geoffrey Chaucer was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on gold.
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“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

“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

“… 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

“all that glitters is not gold”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
The Canterbury Tales

“For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
But all be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 295-300
The Canterbury Tales

“For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 445
The Canterbury Tales

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

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales