Marie de France Quotes

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

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

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.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

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

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.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

You have to endure what you can't change.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

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 fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

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

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

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.

A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.

By men's words we know them.