Geoffrey Chaucer Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Geoffrey Chaucer quotes, Geoffrey Chaucer sayings, and Geoffrey Chaucer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. Geoffrey Chaucer
By nature, men love newfangledness. Geoffrey Chaucer
If gold rusts, what then can iron do? Geoffrey Chaucer
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. Geoffrey Chaucer
Abstinence is approved of God. Geoffrey Chaucer
All good things must come to an end. Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man. Geoffrey Chaucer
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bedGe Geoffrey Chaucer
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet. Geoffrey Chaucer
Strike while the iron is hot. Geoffrey Chaucer
And after winter folweth grene May. Geoffrey Chaucer
And she was fayr as is the rose in May. Geoffrey Chaucer
Therewith the moone's exaltation,* *rising / *In meane* Libra, gan alway ascend, *in the middle of* / As we were ent'ring at a thorpe's* end. *village's / For which our Host, as he was wont to gie,* *govern / As in this case, our jolly company, / Said in this wise; 'Lordings every one, / Now lacketh us no more tales than one. Geoffrey Chaucer
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. Geoffrey Chaucer
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. Geoffrey Chaucer
For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte. Geoffrey Chaucer