Best quotes from The Canterbury Tales

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

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

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

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

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

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

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

People can die of mere imagination

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

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

The man who has no wife is no cuckold.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.