Medieval Quotes · Page 4

“The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.”

— Tony Del Degan

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

— Gar Alperovitz

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

— William Kircher

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall

— Rufus Wainwright

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

— Hilda Doolittle

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

— Dakin Matthews

“The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors”

— Bernard Lewis

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

— Vince Lombardi

“Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of…

— Colin McEvedy

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from…

— Slavoj Žižek

The medieval ideas of the "wild wood" was like a cupboard into which they stuffed everything they were afraid of - Wodwose,…

— John Matthews

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a…

— John Updike

“My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall…

— John Ball

To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do…

— Arthur Bryant

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all…

— Terry Jones

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they…

— Hector Hugh Munro

The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its…

— Richard Dawkins

In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his…

— Waverley Root

“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were…

— A. L. Rowse

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in…

— James Fenton

There isn't any (afterlife), you dingbat! This is it, baby! Enjoy, carefully! Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started.…

— Phyllis Diller

“The Middle Ages have served as a historical arena within which two schools of thought have done battle—one school accusing the medieval…

— Gary B. Ferngren

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh…

— Neil Postman

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.…

— Paul Laffoley

“What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of…

— S.N. Lemoing

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

— Jack Larson

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

— James Randi

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague…

— Jennifer Stone

“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”

— Gillian Hovell

“I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.' 'Sometimes?' she added derisively. 'Quite often,' he tempered.”

— S.N. Lemoing

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy…

— Phyllis Diller

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

— Timothy Radcliffe

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

— Irving Babbitt

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.

— Jonny Bairstow

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised…

— Claire Tomalin

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

— Eric Topol

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has…

— Mario Batali

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

— Barbara Tuchman

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both…

— John Fowles