Chaucer Canterbury Quotes

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

Paul Strohm

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

Marissa Meyer

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Aaron B. Powell

#8. 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

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. 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

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

Suzy Parker

#12. have you killed me, false thief?

Chaucer Geoffrey

#13. 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

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#15. Patience is a conquering virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Newton D. Baker