Chaucerian Tale Quotes & Sayings

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another ... It's all praise, and it's all right. — Rumi

I run so my goals in life will continue to get bigger instead of my belly. — Bill Kirby

No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much the same way that flour is linked to the market for bread. Fair value for CMOs (the finished product) implied a fair value for conventional mortgage bonds (the raw materials). — Michael Lewis

Usually we praise only to be praised. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wait until you get inside. It's my favorite part.' And yes, gentle readers, I am that fucking smooth. — C.J. Roberts

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36) — Pema Chodron

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't fight change; appreciate change. — Debasish Mridha

Angela Carter ... refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new fiery liquor that brought them leaping back to life. From her childhood, through her English degree at the University of Bristol where she specialised in Medieval Literature, and her experiences as a young woman on the folk-music circuit in the West Country, Angela Carter was steeped in English and Celtic faerie, in romances of chivalry and the grail, Chaucerian storytelling and Spenserian allegory, and she was to become fairy tale's rescuer, the form's own knight errant, who seized hold of it in its moribund state and plunged it into the fontaine de jouvence itself.
(from "Chamber of Secrets: The Sorcery of Angela Carter") — Marina Warner