11+ Chaucer Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Chaucer quotes and sayings.

Time and tide wait for no man. — Chaucer

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. — Chaucer

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. — Chaucer

Love is blind. — Chaucer

People can die of mere imagination. — Chaucer

We know little of the things for which we pray. — 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. — Chaucer

First he wrought, and afterward he taught. — Chaucer

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. — Chaucer

Take a cat, nourish it well with milkAnd tender meat, make it a couch of silk,But let it see a mouse along the wallAnd it abandones milk and meat and all. — Chaucer

Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list. — Chaucer

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