Distress Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“The man who has no wife is no cuckold.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, That with the strook he was almoost yblent; And…

— 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…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“In general, my liege lady,’ he began, ‘Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer