Canterbury Tales Quotes

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

People can die of mere imagination.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.