Filled Quote by Alexander Cockburn

“We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion…

— Bram Stoker

Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment,…

— David Bowie

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

— Karen Maitland

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

— Ian Frazier

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical…

— James Welch

“I have seen," he said, "the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the…

— Mary Shelley

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack

“All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or…

— Bram Stoker

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

— William Shakespeare

There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

— Alec Sulkin

“The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched.…

— Bryce Courtenay