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
“Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.”
The Franklin's Tale, l. 10998
The Canterbury Tales
“The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,
Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.”
The Manciples Tale, l. 17281
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“He coude songes make, and wel endite.”
General Prologue, l. 95
The Canterbury Tales
“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”
Book 4, line 525
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
“In his owen grese I made him frie.”
The Reeve's Tale, l. 6069
The Canterbury Tales
“And for to see, and eek for to be seie.”
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6134
The Canterbury Tales
“Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!”
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 614
The Canterbury Tales
