Medieval Fantasy Quotes

#1. 'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

Gwendoline Christie

#2. Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

William Kircher

#3. A generation of lawyers and statisticians cut their teeth on the to-hit and damage tables of medieval fantasy. File it under yet another ridiculous thing that probably saved somebody's life.

Austin Grossman

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

David Kuklis

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Peter David

#8. So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Chris Roberson

#9. It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

Mary Anne Yarde

#10. How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe.

Eloisa James

#11. Emmerich's heart in his throat, he could only stare down at Monica, who looked up at him with glassy eyes as she shivered with pain and choked on blood.

Suzanna J. Linton

#12. Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Peter David

#13. The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human.

Gregory Figg

#14. 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

#15. I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.'
'Sometimes?' she added derisively.
'Quite often,' he tempered.

S.N. Lemoing

#16. 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

#17. Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Peter David

#18. How do you explain plastic to a medieval forest bard?

Jefferson Smith

#19. A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart

Sylvia Abolis Mennear

#20. 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

#21. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

Peter David

#22. Life was a destiny waiting to be seized.

Karen Azinger

#23. There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Peter David

#24. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

Peter David

#25. Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Peter David

#26. Part of the appeal of fantasy for me is that I don't get bored. If I want to write quasi-Medieval, that's what I write. If I feel like doing contemporary for a while, then I'll do it.

Melanie Rawn

#27. You have to hold on and be patient. Pain lasts for a while, but you must leave room for happiness when you find it.

S.N. Lemoing

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

Peter David

#29. I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

Peter David

#30. The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

Robert Jordan

#31. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Peter David

#32. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

Peter David

#33. Are you educated in the art of medicine?" Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. "A bit," I hedged.

Lisa T Bergren