Top 15 Quotes by Marie de France

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.