Medieval Quotes

163 Medieval quotes by 143 unique authors

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new… — Terry Pratchett
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. — Eli Roth
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty… — John Millington Synge
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was… — Robert Winston
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie… — Umberto Eco
The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people… — Frank Zappa
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements,… — Anne Rice
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?… — Milan Kundera
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel… — Russell Brand
Talk. I'll just wait' shall I? Because my mission to save this town is of no importance whatsoever next to your girl talk."- Myrnin "Oh,… — Rachel Caine
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the… — John Fowles
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there… — David Eddings
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than… — Ian Mortimer
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling… — Marian Keyes
In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor… — Thomas Harris
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows… — Ricky Gervais
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over… — Jim Butcher

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