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- Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to… — Jean Aitchison
- The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury
- The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser
- The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. — William Hazlitt
- And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name… — Henry David Thoreau
- I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey… — David Eddings
- I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and… — James Joyce