Guillaume de Lorris > Quotes

“The more a man gazes on what he loves, the more he sets fire to his heart and bastes it with bacon fat.”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“كما أن البحرلا يمكن تجفيفه، فإن أوجاع المحب وتباريح الغرام لا يمكن حصرها في الروايات”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“From here to Jerusalem no woman has a more beautiful neck;
it was smooth and soft to the touch.
She had a bosom as white has the snow upon a branch,
when it has just fallen.
Her body as well made and svelte;
you would not have had to seek anywhere on earth to find a woman with a more beautiful body.
She had a pretty chaplet of gold embroidery. There was never a girl more elegant or better arrayed;
nor would I have described her right. Above the chaplet of gold embroidery was one of fresh roses, and in her hand she held a mirror,
and she had arranged her hair with a rich head-band.”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“Велю я Праздностью себя именовать, — она сказала. — Богата я и всемогуща, мне времени хватает для всего. ("Роман о Розе", Г. де Лоррис, Ж. де Мен, XIII в.)”
― Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose (Litterature)

“كلما أمعن المرء النظر في الهدف المراد، اشتعلت نار الحب في قلبه وزاد احتدامها”
― Guillaume de Lorris

“Love, if I think right, is a sickness of thought that takes place between two persons of different sex when they are in close proximity and open to each other. It arises among people from the burning desire, born of disordinate glances, to embrace and kiss each other and to have the solace of one another's body. A lover so burns and is so enraptured that he thinks of nothing else; he takes no account of bearing fruit, but strives only for delight.”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“إن أحداً لا يمكن أن يحيا هانئاً
ما لم يدفع الثمن
فاللذة يكون مذاقها أفضل
عندما نشتريها بأغلى الأثمان”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“وحدهم الحمقى والمغترون بنفسهم، من يتجه صوب أولئك المتكبرين الآخرين”
― Guillaume de Lorris

“MANY men say that in our dreams There are but lies and idle themes; And yet a man can dream such dreams As are not lies, rather, it seems, Their meaning, later, becomes clear. We may invoke as witness here,”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose: Le Roman de la Rose