Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue.
Marriage Quotes
'Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, is right y-nough for me To speke of wo that is in mariage. For lordinges, sith I twelf yeer was of age, Thonked be God that is eterne on lyve...
Sex Quotes
But wel I woot expres, withoute lye, God bad us for to wexe and multiplye: That gentil text can I wel understonde. (27-29)
Women and Femininity Quotes
A wys womman wol bisye hire evere in oon To gete hire love, ye, ther as she hath noon. (215-216)
Power Quotes
Th'Apostel, whan he speketh of maydenhede, He seyde that precept therof hadde he noon. Men may conseille a womman to been oon, But conseilling is no comandement: He putte it in oure owene jugement....
Wealth Quotes
Yblessed be God, that I have wedded fyve; (Of whiche I have pyked out the beste, Bothe of here nether purs and of here cheste.) (44-46)
Literature and Writing Quotes
Experience, thou noon auctoritee Were in this world, were right ynogh to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. (1-3)
Old Age Quotes
Yet herde I nevere tellen in myn age Upon this nombre diffinicioun. (24-25)
Love Quotes
I have the power durynge al my lyf Upon his propre body, and noght he. Right thus the Apostel tolde it unto me, And bad oure housbondes for to love us weel. Al this sentence me liketh every deel. (...