"And she was fair as is the rose…" — Geoffrey Chaucer
"And she was fair as is the rose in May."
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91 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer has 91 quotes on this site.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in…
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be…
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
— Javier Bardem
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a…
— Lewis Black
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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