Quote

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
Astrologer
Linguist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
London
England
Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Took
Pieces
Away
Draughts
Draught
Queens
Chess
False
Fortune

More quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Image
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Mercy surpasses justice.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
All good things must come to an end.
Geoffrey Chaucer