But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but…

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Patience is a conquering virtue.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“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

I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger…

— Chris Ware

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed…

— Rick Moody

“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

“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The…

— Ronald Carter

“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…

— Jacopo della Quercia

“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…

— Jack Weatherford

“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”

— Anonymous

“The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations. As one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight,…

— William Blake