Geoffrey Chaucer: Quotes about men

Geoffrey Chaucer was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Source: Troilus and Criseyde

“What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921
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

“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

“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
The Canterbury Tales

“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
The Canterbury Tales

“Of all the floures in the mede,
Than love I most these floures white and rede,
Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“That well by reason men it call may
The daisie, or els the eye of the day,
The emprise, and floure of floures all.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)