"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
TruthView Quote
"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
posted in Friendship
Other Quotes by Marie de France
Discover more inspiring quotes by Marie de France
"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
LoveView Quote
"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
KnowledgeView Quote
"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
JealousyView Quote
"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
FaithView Quote
"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
AngerView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan."
-Bill Berry
FriendshipView Quote
"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
-Tony Garza
FriendshipView Quote
"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
-Eleanor Robson Belmont
FriendshipView Quote
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
-Fawn M. Brodie
FriendshipView Quote
"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."
-Galina Vishnevskaya
FriendshipView Quote
"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
FriendshipView Quote