Medieval Quotes

“Loose and forbear!”

— Mark Twain

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

— Frederick Pollock

“Lying is a thriving vocation.”

— Susanna Centlivre

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

— Grimes

Medieval learning was really advanced.

— Terry Jones

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

— Steven Crowder

“Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.”

— Stefan Emunds

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

— Anonymous

“I love you enough to keep you from dying with me... ~ Dane de Falaise”

— Gayle Mullen Pace

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

— Peter Singer

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

— Homer Hickam

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

— William Manchester

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

— Charles William Chadwick Oman

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

— Neil Postman

That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the…

— Emir Kusturica

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before…

— John Fowles

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the…

— Sharon Kay Penman

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with…

— Tina St. John

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

— John Kennedy Toole

“At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of…

— C.S. Lewis

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in…

— Oliver Stone

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of…

— John Millington Synge

“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this…

— Achille Luchaire

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the…

— Raphael Patai

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult…

— George R. R. Martin

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of…

— Simon Schama

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit…

— John Updike

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and…

— Sasha Pieterse

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and…

— Janine di Giovanni

“The whole appeal of medieval studies - the language, the literature, the history, the art and architecture - to immerse oneself in…

— David Szalay

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It…

— Bernadette Devlin

I find the niqab symbol profoundly offensive. I believe it reflects a misogynistic culture that - a treatment of women as property…

— Jason Kenney

In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people.…

— Donald Trump

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great…

— John Fowles

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but…

— Edward Abbey

While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started…

— Mary Pope Osborne

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

— Charles Clarke

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

— Joshua

“Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.”

— Karen Azinger