Chaucer Canterbury Quotes

#1. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

#2. people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Paul Strohm

#3. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.

Jacopo Della Quercia

#4. Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?

Brom

#5. Patience is a conquering virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#6. Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#7. I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.

Sam Riley

#8. have you killed me, false thief?

Chaucer Geoffrey

#9. And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

Suzy Parker

#10. She deserved it, the snake. After keeping my little golden bird locked up in her cage for so long.

Marissa Meyer

#11. Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.

Katherine McIntyre

#12. If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

#13. The only really detestable character in Chaucer's company of Canterbury pilgrims is the Pardoner with his stringy locks, his eunuch's hairless skin, his glaring eyes like a hare's, and his brazen acknowledgment of the tricks and deceits of his trade.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#14. There really is no devil. There is only God. Everything that makes up the universe is God.

Aaron B. Powell

#15. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#16. Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#17. For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a common man should rust
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-

Geoffrey Chaucer

#18. The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

Slavoj Zizek