"I preche of nothing but for coveityse. Therfor……" — Geoffrey Chaucer
"I preche of nothing but for coveityse. Therfor my theme is yet, and ever was Radix malorum est cupiditas."
—
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 Theme Quotes
This quote is filed under Theme Quotes,
one of 698 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and…
— Dario Argento
-
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
— Chinua Achebe
-
If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
— David Axelrod
-
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
— Erykah Badu
-
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
— Alan Ball
-
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
— Scott Adams
-
Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So…
— Mario Batali
-
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from…
— Ezra Taft Benson
-
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
— Elizabeth Bowen
-
However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that…
— David Bowie
-
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
See all 698 Theme Quotes »