Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
Astrologer
Linguist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
London
England
Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Impressionable
Potent
Fancy
Imagination
Dies
People
More quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
Geoffrey Chaucer
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
Geoffrey Chaucer
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
Geoffrey Chaucer
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
Geoffrey Chaucer
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
Geoffrey Chaucer
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
Geoffrey Chaucer
He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
Geoffrey Chaucer
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
Geoffrey Chaucer
For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
Geoffrey Chaucer
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Geoffrey Chaucer
