Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail Quotes

“How wretched is the man who sees the perfect opportunity and still waits for a better one.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“The dead with the dead, the living with the living.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“The world is becoming very stingy now, because no-one's respected if he isn't rich. But I value wealth very little indeed, for it can bring no-one any good: a curse on worldly wealth.”
― Gerbert de Montreuil, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“When a man fails to honour ladies, his own honour must be dead.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“Potem dobywa nagiego i przetrzymawszy chwilkę w dłoni wkłada z powrotem do pochwy. Wiedzcie, że pięknie mu z mieczem u boku, a jeszcze piękniej – z mieczem w dłoni.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail

“A man who honours a worthy man soon earns a great reward; but a man who serves a wicked man ill bestows his service. There's nothing good to be said about wicked men; but... finding a worthy man is quite an event, for they are few and far between! And when one really comes to know some of those thought to be worthy men, one often finds, to put it plainly, nothing in them but a bag of wind. The wicked often deceive people and turn their heads by appearances: there are some very stupid folk who praise a man for his apparent worth, not according to his deeds or wisdom.”
― Pseudo-Wauchier, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“Any wise man fears open spitefulness, whether it be in seriousness or in jest.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, with the Continuations

“veáis precisado a combatir con algún caballero, acordaos de lo que ahora os quiero decir y rogar: si vos lo vencéis, de modo que él ya no pueda defenderse de vos ni oponérseos y se vea obligado a ponerse en vuestra merced, pensad en tenerle merced y a pesar de ello no lo matéis.”
― Chrétien de Troyes, El cuento del grial