Quotes About Canterbury Tales

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

Paul Strohm

#2. 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

#3. Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

Rachel Vincent

#4. For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. ========== Canterbury Tales

Anonymous

#5. I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Rick Moody

#6. English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.

Robert Graves

#7. 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

#8. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

Tony Abbott

#11. There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Andy Milonakis

#12. I was a teenage godmother.

Theresa May

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#14. According to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth.

James Rollins

#15. I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Mae West

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Charley Pride

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Jeremih

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

#19. Patience is a conquering virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#20. No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#21. If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?

Herbert Spencer

#22. Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

Gregory Maguire

#23. I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

Michael Pena

#24. Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.

Matt Smay

#25. I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Jack White

#26. I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

Helene Hanff

#27. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

David Belle