The best The Canterbury Tales quotes

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

Well is it said that neither love nor power, Admit a rival, even for an hour.

It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends.

When in April the sweet showers fall, And pierce the drought of March to the root, ... Then people long to go on pilgrimages.

You’re doing nothing else but wasting time. Sir, in a word, you shall no longer rhyme.

Except experience, mine, for what it’s worth, And that’s enough me.

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

People can die of mere imagination

Lovers must each be ready to obey. The other, if they would long keep company.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

The man who has no wife is no cuckold.