Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer Download Open image ““Youre tale anoyeth al this compaignye. Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye,”” — Geoffrey Chaucer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But for to telle yow al hir beautee, It lyth nat in my tonge, n'yn my konnyng; I dar nat undertake so heigh a… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“.. and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's like a… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)” — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
“No story runs alone. Always, it travels in the company of others. Atrament Speaks” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To quote French author François Mauriac, ‘Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know… — Sarah Wendell Copy Share Image
“Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“De nem mondta-e meg már Shakespeare is, hogy aki mosolyog, gazember is lehet?” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.” — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“I should add, however, by way of justification of French politeness, that our fellow-countrymen are, when travelling, models of good manners in comparison with… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“(Modigliani liked Baudelaire's poem about the albatross being mocked by sailors: 'Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!')” — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
“For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.” — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
