If one of two lovers is loyal, and the o... by Marie de France | We Heart Quotes

Literature May Friendship Middle Ages Lais

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

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Authority Past

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

- Marie de France

Worth Nothing Love

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

- Marie de France

Art Will

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

- Marie de France

Mourning

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.

- Marie de France

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

- Marie de France

Love

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

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