Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say.

Madame, ye ben of al beautè shryne As fer as cercled is the mappemounde; For as the cristal glorious ye shyne, And lyke ruby ben your chekes rounde.

La moraleja de todas las tragedias es la misma: que la Fortuna siempre ataca a los reinos prepotentes cuando menos lo esperan.

And Christ’s law and His Apostles twelve he taught, but first he followed it himself.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

— La compasión surge rápidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne;

If no love is, O God, what fele I so?
And if love is, what thing and which is he?
If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?
If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.

For, by this Sin, God loses the Church and the souls that He bought with His precious blood, when Churches are given to those who are not worthy. Into these Churches are put thieves who steal souls from Jesus Christ and destroy His patrimony. By reason of such unworthy Priests and Curates do ignorant men lose all reverence for the sacraments of Holy Church, and such usurpers of Churches put out of the Church the children of Christ and put into the Church the Devil’s own sons. They sell the souls of the lambs they are sworn to save to the wolf that will slay them. And, therefore, these disreputable Priests should never have any part of the pasture of lambs, which is the bliss of Heaven.

O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

the harm that’s in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.

Now purs, that be to me my lyves light, And saveour, as doun in this worlde here, Out of this toune help me through your might.

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more.

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught and first he followed it himself.

But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old