"Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fe… - Geoffrey Chaucer

"Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy is woe. God knows that worldly joys do swiftly go; And if a rhetorician could but write, He in some chronicle might well indite And mark it down as sovereign in degree.

Geoffrey Chaucer

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is most famous as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Chaucer

All quotes from Geoffrey Chaucer Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Geoffrey Chaucer:

William Shakespeare Ben Jonson Walter Scott George Herbert Alexander Pope

Additional quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal! Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al; Hold the hye wey, and lat thy gost thee lede: And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede.

"Full is my heart of revelry and grace." But suddenly he fell in grievous case; For ever the latter end of joy is woe. God knows that worldly joys do… - Geoffrey Chaucer

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Also Known As

Enhance Your Quote Experience

Additional quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer