Love Quote by Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

— Andre Maurois

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“Dispensing indiscriminate justice and the righteous smell of gunpowder.”

— Larry Correia

“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.”

— Kevin Hearne

“And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each…

— O. Henry

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

“Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In…

— Mladen Đorđević

“Imagine if people knew that this legendary brotherhood who, according to the history books, ceased to exist in the Middle Ages was actually still…

— John Paul Davis

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes…

— C.S. Lewis

“It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth. The Great War had concussed the world.…

— Colum McCann

“Chiron had once said that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. 'No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”

— Madeline Miller

“Sooner or later I too may passively take the print Of the golden age--why not? I have neither hope nor trust; May make my…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson