Marie De France Quotes
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
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.
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.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
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.
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.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
