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The Cook: Between a jest and a joke, many a truth can be told.
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The Wife from Bath: There's nowhere in the Gospels that says we ought to stay virgins. Anyway, tell me, what were the genital organs made for at the creation? Not to lie dormant I suppose. And nobody's going to tell me they were just put there to piss through. Mark you, I use it for that as well. And every man must serve his wife in wedlock...
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Molly: [singing] Oh, there was a little beggar man that goes from town to town, and wherever he get a job and work he's willing to sit down. With his bundle on his shoulder, his stick was in his hand and it's down the country I shall go with me roving journeyman. And from the County Carlow the girls all jump for joy. Says one unto the other "now here comes a Dublin boy." And they wanted me to marry her and took me by the hand. She went home and told her mother that she loves the journeyman.
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Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!
The Canterbury Tales Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Language: Italian,English,Latin,Gaelic Release date: May 30, 1980