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Middle Ages Quotes by Goldwin Smith
- Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt…
- No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their…
- But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period,…
- 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…
- If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
More Middle Ages Quotes
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. — Franklin P. Adams
- We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to… — Alain de Botton
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
- As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly,… — Julie Burchill
- I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — Julie Burchill
- The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. — Horatio Alger