Quotes About Courtly Love

#1. The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said.

Robert B. Parker

#2. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.

Anne Fadiman

#3. Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
all.

Bobby Fischer

#4. The Lord's people are dear for another's sake. Such is the love which the Father bears to His only begotten, that for His sake He raises His lowly brethren from poverty and banishment, to courtly companionship, noble rank, and royal provision.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Emotions and beliefs are masters, reason their servant. Ignore emotion, and reason slumbers; trigger emotion, and reason comes rushing to help.

Henry M. Boettinger

#6. It was frustrating, the way this siblings worshipped their parents. What part of their worlds would crumble if they took a good look at their parents' flaws? If there was no trauma, why not talk about the everyday, human elements of their upbringing? Call a spade a spade.

Angela Flournoy

#7. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Thomas Paine

#10. Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.

Shannon Messenger