Quote

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

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
Wrought
Afterwards
Teaching
Taught
Firsts
First

More quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Image
One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Image
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
Image
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
Geoffrey Chaucer