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They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval. — Roberta Pearce

I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I'm still down with the Devil and I will go medieval on your ass. — The Undertaker

She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint. — Rupert S. Holland

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover. — Mary Anne Yarde

In medieval times most singers, dancers, and musical performers were, at least in origin, slaves. — Bernard Lewis

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable. — Dante Alighieri

He saves his iciest hate for economists. Taleb has no use for the "charlatanic" field, comparing economic research to medieval medicine. — Anonymous

He doth nothing but talk of his horses. — William Shakespeare

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. — Peter Singer

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. — Lotoya Peterson

Lying is a thriving vocation. — Susanna Centlivre

Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness. — Shannon Hale

Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying. — Angela Quarles

Then you are no longer afraid of death, Your Majesty?" the lady asked, awed at the queen's adventures. "No, I am no longer afraid of life. — Constance Jagodzinski

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you. — Melanie Dickerson

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher

You are charismatic. Men are drawn to you. I am drawn to you. And by your size, let alone your skill with weapons, they will be in awe of you. — Amy Jarecki

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. — Richard Rogers

There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot. — Edwin Mullins

With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. — George R R Martin

Maimed but still magnificent ... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. — R. W. Apple Jr.

Ah, life in medieval times! Yeah, we only have to worry about losing our heads every day. — David Kuklis

The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it. — Stefan Emunds

Medieval theology is radically theocentric, and God, for medieval theologians, is of course the Trinitarian God. — Rik Van Nieuwenhove

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. — Peter Diamandis

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist. — William Manchester

They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head. — Elizabeth Goudge

Rodriguez seldom concerned himself with the past, holding that the future is all we can order the scheme of.
And maybe even here he was wrong. — Lord Dunsany

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast. — Robert Jordan

You arrogant, selfish, egotistical, medieval, despotic, swollen-headed, dumb, idiot penis owner! — Christine Warren

The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11 — Richard Sennett

What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of those who go with the flow? — S.N. Lemoing

Nothing is unobtainable to the sword. — Lord Dunsany

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too — Alexander Cockburn

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads. — James K. Morrow

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate. — Malcolm Gladwell

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. — Michel De Montaigne

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

...he made her blood rush as hot as it has at fifteen, coupled with a playfulness she had nearly forgotten she once possessed. — Joyce DiPastena

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily. — Madeleine L'Engle

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief. — T.L. Parker

...sin does not deal its consequences evenly upon men and women... — Joyce DiPastena

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. — Frederick Pollock

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings. — Sigrid Undset

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'
Then look your fill, and leap away. — Charles Reade

How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard? — Jefferson Smith

There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work. — G.K. Chesterton

I hear everything he's saying, but mentally I'm picturing a sword hidden in my body like some medieval tampon, and suddenly, I'm afraid to sit down — Addison Moore

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan

A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. — E. O. Wilson

Unbridled passion with an incredibly hot seven hundred-year-old Highlander in the middle of the night? Mm Yeah. Bring it on. — Amy Jarecki

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die? — Robert Jordan

Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death. — Peter David

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it. — Peter David

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all. — Mario Batali

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome. — Peter David

Medieval learning was really advanced. — Terry Jones

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner

I see who you are. You see only who you fear you might become." - Maggie to Tadhg — Kris Kennedy

Satan's hairy ass! — Robert Thier

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. — Meister Eckhart

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture. — Mary E. Pearson

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain. — John Kennedy Toole

Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you're too small to be a full witch." (Emmerich) — Suzanna J. Linton

I'm not a saviour," he said.
She, of all people knew no one was and that she didn't deserve one.
"I'm not asking you to be. — Nicole Locke

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure. — Gar Alperovitz

I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were. — Sean Bean

At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub. — Rainbow Rowell

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul. — Daniel Marques

...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery. — Joseph Bedier

Which medieval chronicle did you escape from? You sound like a courtly knight. — E.L. James

For a moment in time she had been a lady, someone who was wanted ... — Melanie Dickerson

What was once your crown will now be your collar, and you will wear it until you learn what it is to submit. — Ava Sinclair

It's medieval," Marcus said. "You might as well walk down the street in a suit of armor. — Tiffany Reisz

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft. — Marian Keyes

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. — Kenneth E. Boulding

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 reality. — John Fowles

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman

Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking. — Stefan Emunds

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing? — Douglas Wilson

Loose and forbear! — Mark Twain

Every night, I slip into the empty winter land of memory. — Ned Hayes

History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now — Colin McEvedy

We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. — Edward O. Wilson

I listen to a lot of medieval music. — Grimes

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach. — Marguerite De Navarre

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination. — Jonathan Carroll

...she felt safe with Nicolo, and feared nothing. — Mirella Sichirollo Patzer

I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.'
'Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered. — S.N. Lemoing

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin). — Charles Clarke

The medieval courtly love tradition holds that love is impossible in marriage because it is coerced, I said. — Robert B. Parker

Richard knew, of course, that his was thought to be an unlucky title; only twice before had a Richard ruled England, and both met violent ends. — Sharon Kay Penman

The Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books, a list that came to include almost every significant work of post-medieval Western philosophy. — David Hume

The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy. — Arthur Conan Doyle