Love Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

All good things must come to an end.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

In love there is but little rest.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

A love grown old is not the love once new.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Love is a thing aye full of busy dead.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

It is nought good a sleping hound to wake.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Ful wys is he that kan himselve knowe.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Make a virtue of necessity.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

— Geoffrey Chaucer

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

What is Love? Alright. You know how when you're listening to music from another room, and you're singing along, because it's a…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Hard is the heart that loveth nought In May.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

She loved right from the first sight

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Men love newfangleness.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Many small make a great.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Mercy surpasses justice.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

By nature, men love newfangledness.

— Geoffrey Chaucer