39 Quotes by Marie de France

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

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.