
„Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in,
Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample.
The cause of Love shall win“
Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
Book 2, line 22-28
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Context: 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.
Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
— Tucker Max Internet personality; blogger; author 1975
— Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 305 - 310
Source: The Canterbury Tales
Context: Of studie took he most cure and most hede.
Noght o word spak he more than was nede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence.
Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919
chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. "But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?"
Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
Song lyrics, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
"The Kiss"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
— Philippa Gregory, book The Other Boleyn Girl
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl
— Ashleigh Brilliant American author and cartoonist 1933
— Pericles Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens -494 - -429 BC
As quoted in Eternal Greece (1961) by Rex Warner, p. 34
Context: Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6134
The Canterbury Tales
— John Mandeville writer 1300 - 1372
For on whatever Part of the Earth that Men dwell, either above or beneath, it seemeth always to them, that they go more up-right than any other Folk. And right as it seemeth to us that they be under us, right so it seemeth to them that we be under them.
Source: The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt., Ch. 17
— Michelle Rowen Canadian writer 1971
Source: Dark Kiss
— John Buchan, book The Power-House
Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Context: I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. They may be idealists and desire to make a new world, or they may simply be artists, loving for its own sake the pursuit of truth. If I were to hazard a guess, I should say that it took both types to bring about results, for the second find the knowledge and the first the will to use it.
— Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 1-12
The Canterbury Tales
— James Allen, book As a Man Thinketh
Source: As a Man Thinketh
— George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
— Samuel R. Delany, book Tales of Nevèrÿon
Section 2 (p. 46)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919
Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels
— James Hamilton Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814 - 1867
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.