The 14th Century Quotes
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The 14th Century Quotes & Sayings
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
— Barbara Tuchman
Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
— Al Yankovic
but what didn't sit right with me was the fact that Marshae survived. She was still being hospitalized and was in a coma.
— Diamond Johnson
Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.
— Timothy B. Tyson
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
— Julian Fellowes
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
— Ken Follett
In the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.
— Alice Cooper
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
— Barbara Tuchman
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
— Barbara Tuchman
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
— Sam Harris