The best The Canterbury Tales quotes

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.

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

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

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.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

The man who has no wife is no cuckold.