"Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an……" — Geoffrey Chaucer
"Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse."
—
Geoffrey Chaucer
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
91 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer has 91 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in…
-
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
-
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
-
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
-
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
-
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
-
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
-
People can die of mere imagination.
-
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
-
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
-
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be…
-
In the stars is written the death of every man.
See all 91 quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer »
More Been Quotes
This quote is filed under Been Quotes,
one of 43,316 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
— Aaliyah
-
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
-
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
— Aristotle
-
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
-
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
— J. J. Abrams
-
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
See all 43,316 Been Quotes »