Top 15 Quotes by Marie de France

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.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

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.

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

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.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

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.