Джефри Чосер цитаты

„Кто пьёт, тот стал на путь разврата.“

„Жадность — корень всех зол.“

„Мы все как тот, кто опьянён вином,
Пьянчуга знает: есть, мол, где-то дом.
Не знает только, как пройти домой,
И скользок путь под пьяного ногой.
Вот так же мы блуждаем в сей юдоли:
Мы жадно ищем путь к счастливой доле,
Но без конца плутаем, как на грех.“

„…Праздностью рождается разврат“

„Друзья должны в согласье полном жить“

„Не жди добра, кто злое сотворил, обманщик будет в свой черед обманут.“

„О злейший яд, докучливая бедность!“

„Кто для других законы составляет“

„Остерегайтесь гнусным поведеньем“

„Недаром говорят: в любви и власти
Никто охотно не уступит части…“

„Кто властвовать желает над собой,
Тот должен чувства сдерживать порой.“

„Не жди добра, кто злое сотворил“

„Виновные думают, что все говорят о себе.“

„Люди могут умереть просто от воображения“

„Жизнь коротка. Искусство долго. Удача временна. Коварен опыт . И Суждение сложно.“

„Не все золото, что блестит.“

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

“No empty handed man can lure a bird”

“I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.”

“people can die of mere imagination”

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”

“And of your herte up-casteth the visage
To thilke God that after his image
Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire
This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.”

“Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.”

“Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.”

“And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.”

“What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.”

“Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem”

“This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro”

“Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,”

“But yet that holden this tale a folly,
As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,
Taketh the morality, good men.
For Saint Paul saith that all that written is,
To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis;
Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.”

“The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,
The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;
Al this mene I be love.”

“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”

“the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people”

“Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire”

“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”

“He helde about him alway, out of drede,
A world of folke.”

“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.”

“Noght o word spak he more than was nede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence.
Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.”

“… if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust….”

“How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.”

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”

“Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!”

“the guilty think all talk is of themselves.”

“all that glitters is not gold”

“Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.”