Marie de France famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
-- Marie de France

#Men #Sexist #Violent
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
-- Marie de France

#Thinking #Fool #World
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
-- Marie de France

#Love #Loyalty #Fake People
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.
-- Marie de France

#Love Is #Lovers #Beloved
He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
-- Marie de France

#Tunes #Tales #Vary
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
-- Marie de France

#Names #Letters #Firsts
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
-- Marie de France

#Knights #Gentleman #Gone
You have to endure what you can't change.
-- Marie de France

#Endure
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.
-- Marie de France

#Want #Stories #Variety
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
-- Marie de France

#Bullying #Bully #Threat
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
-- Marie de France

#Desire #Hazards #Blind
The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.
-- Marie de France

#Rich #Poor #Rich And Poor
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.
-- Marie de France

#Loyalty #Men #Hidden Things
Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
-- Marie de France

#Believe #Men #Foolish
I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
-- Marie de France

#Love Is #Serious #Jest
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms.
-- Marie de France

#Men #Speech #Doe
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
-- Marie de France

#Lips #Speak
We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
-- Marie de France

#Should #Wiser #Scorn
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.
-- Marie de France

#Loyalty #Mean #Matter
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
-- Marie de France

#Fashion #Past #Stories
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.
-- Marie de France

#Anger #Wrath #Wish
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
-- Marie de France

#Heart #Heart To Heart #Persons
But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
-- Marie de France

#Wheels #Never Forget #Fortune
By men's words we know them.
-- Marie de France

#Men

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