Top 28 The Canterbury Tales Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.
Ellen Meloy
#3. I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.
Saul Perlmutter
#4. The nation will never drill, fill and extract its way out of what amounts to a public health crisis among some populations. Throwing more 'treaters' into the mix amounts to digging a hole in an ocean of disease.
Mary Otto
#5. Not everyone sees the goof in people like you do Emmy" Sam said
"She even sees the good in you
Kady Cross
#6. It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#7. people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Paul Strohm
#8. Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#9. Remember what mom used to say? "Shred the guilt.
Miriam Toews
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
Rachel Vincent
#13. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. No administration in my entire career devoted more time and energy to working the Pakistanis than did President Obama and all his senior team.
Robert M. Gates
#20. We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
Jack Huston
#23. 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
#24. I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
Walton Goggins
#25. Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
Agnes Repplier
#26. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#27. 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
#28. I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their front door, because they are scared of failure. I have never been scared of failure, and I have never failed.
John Layfield
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