Geoffrey Chaucer cytaty
Geoffrey Chaucer
Data urodzenia: 1343
Data zgonu: 25. Październik 1400
Natępne imiona: Джеффри Чосер
Geoffrey Chaucer – angielski
poeta, filozof i dyplomata.
Dzieło
Cytaty Geoffrey Chaucer
„Był z nimi Rycerz, szlachetny i prawy,
Który od pierwszej młodości wyprawy
Rycerskie cnoty umiłował kornie:
Wierność, cześć, hojność, obyczaje dworne.
(…)
Był w Aleksandrii, gdy ją zdobywano;
Na pierwszym miejscu zwykle go zasadzano
Pośród rycerzy wszystkich nacyj w Prusiech,
Bo rzadko walczył na Litwie i Rusi
Równy mu stanem rycerz chrześcijański.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
(…)
At Alisaundre he was, whan it was wonne.
Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne
Aboven alle nacions in Pruce;
In Lettow hadde he reysed, and in Ruce,
No Cristen man so ofte of his degree. (ang.)
Źródło: Opowieści kanterberyjskie, tłum. Helena Pręczkowska, Wrocław 1963.
„A jeśli miłość, czym jest, rzeczą jaką? Jeśli jest dobra, czemu torturuje?“
Źródło: Troilus i Kresyda
„I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
Źródło: The Canterbury Tales
„If gold rusts, what then can iron do?“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
Źródło: The Canterbury Tales
„No empty handed man can lure a bird“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
Źródło: The Canterbury Tales
„the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Reeve's Tale, l. 134
The Canterbury Tales
Wariant: The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
Źródło: The Complete Poetry and Prose
„The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4; comparable with Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
Źródło: The Parliament of Birds
„What is this world? what asketh men to have?“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921
The Canterbury Tales
Kontekst: What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.
„Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Kontekst: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Book 2, line 22-28
„Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 672-677
The Canterbury Tales
Kontekst: But yet that holden this tale a folly,
As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,
Taketh the morality, good men.
For Saint Paul saith that all that written is,
To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis;
Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.
„Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186
The Canterbury Tales
Kontekst: p>What maketh this, but Juppiter the kyng,
That is prince and cause of alle thyng
Convertynge al unto his propre welle
From which it is deryved, sooth to telle,
And heer-agayns no creature on lyve
Of no degree availleth for to strive.Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,
And take it weel, that we may nat eschue;
And namely, that to us alle is due.</p
„This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Knight's Tale, lV, 1990 - 1992
The Canterbury Tales
Kontekst: This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
„Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Troilus and Criseyde
Book 2, line 22-28
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Kontekst: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
„Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer, książka Opowieści kanterberyjskie
The Knight's Tale, l. 1181-1182
The Canterbury Tales
Kontekst: And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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