William Langland Quotes

#1. I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.

William Langland

#2. For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.

William Langland

#3. Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.

William Langland

#4. A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

William Langland

#5. Who will bell the cat?

William Langland

#6. There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

William Langland

#7. Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

William Langland

#8. But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

William Langland

#9. Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

William Langland

#10. And what a tree took away a tree shall restore

William Langland

#11. In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

William Langland