Geoffrey Chaucer słynne cytaty
„A jeśli miłość, czym jest, rzeczą jaką? Jeśli jest dobra, czemu torturuje?”
Źródło: Troilus i Kresyda
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.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Cytaty po angielsku
The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales
“Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.”
The Court of Love, line 178
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.”
General Prologue, l. 72
The Canterbury Tales
“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
The Canterbury Tales
“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”
One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6695
The Canterbury Tales
“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”
Parlement of Foules, l. 379
“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”
General Prologue, l. 287
The Canterbury Tales
“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
The Canterbury Tales
“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”
The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
The Canterbury Tales
“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
Źródło: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales, L. 1201
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”
The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 122-126
The Canterbury Tales
“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
The Canterbury Tales
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”
General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
The Canterbury Tales
“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
The Canterbury Tales
The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”
The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
The Canterbury Tales
“This flour of wifly patience.”
The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
The Canterbury Tales
“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
General Prologue, l. 440
The Canterbury Tales
“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
The Canterbury Tales
