Age Quote by Lytton Strachey Download Open image “There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.” — Lytton Strachey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Atmosphere Dark Middle Middle ages
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances in science,… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
