First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

“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

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Anonymous

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than…

— Anonymous

“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

“In the late 1300s, decades after the expulsion of the Jews from England, Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England’s earliest poets, included Hugh’s story in…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Patience is a conquering virtue.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer