Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

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.

it's like being attacked by a RAT!

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may die of imaginacioun,
So depe may impressioun be take.

Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?

Then you compared a woman's love to Hell,
To barren land where water will not dwell,
And you compared it to a quenchless fire,
The more it burns the more is its desire
To burn up everything that burnt can be.
You say that just as worms destroy a tree
A wife destroys her husband and contrives,
As husbands know, the ruin of their lives.

He kept his tippet stuffed with pins for curls, And pocket-knives, to give to pretty girls.

Lost money is not lost beyond recall, But loss of time brings on the loss of all.

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

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.

My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne.

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis;
Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.

It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.

He hath considered shortly, in a clause
The trespas of hem bothe, and eek the cause,
And althogh that his ire hir gilt accused,
Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused,
As thus: he thoghte wel that every man
Wol helpe himself in love if that he kan,
And eek delivere himself out of prisoun;