Canterbury Tales Quotes

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”
― Chaucer Geoffrey, The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume 2

“Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“A collaborative analysis: i.e, he asked questions until he got either the answers he wanted or some other that was acceptable because he had never thought of it.”
― Pamela Dean, Tam Lin