Mediaeval Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper… — George Herbert
The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack,… — Kevin Hart
The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the… — Hector Hugh Munro
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. — Goldwin Smith
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. — Salman Rushdie
Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal. — Ambrose Bierce
I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced… — Werner Herzog
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they… — Goldwin Smith
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. — Joseph Conrad
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree… — George Edward Woodberry
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes… — Emmeline Pankhurst

Who Wrote These Mediaeval Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Mediaeval Quotes as follows: