Medieval Time Quotes

#1. The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#2. I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Ken Follett

#3. Yet any time I opened up a book of medieval art, or walked into the Renaissance galleries in a museum, I was confronted with Mary.

Holly Ordway

#4. You will marry me. We will be together. I will not discuss this again." His dark eyes turned into bottomless, black pits. "Capisce?" he growled. Barbarian. Or, is he a medieval bastard? Dammit why didn't I pay closer attention to time periods in history class?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#5. 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

#6. The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#7. The time and moment of Ancient and Medieval is gone, a new change is sought from within by the lifeforce a moment that is for NOW and not holding on the Past which though Primordial is eternally in the present living for the Future.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#8. We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.

John Hodgman

#9. There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Richard Lederer

#10. You will be the death of me, woman.

Angela Quarles

#11. He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out. As if Venice felt less of an obligation to pretend to be part of this millennium at night, and had reverted to its medieval self again.

Lev Grossman

#12. Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

T.L. Parker

#14. I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.

Gene Doucette

#15. For a moment in time she had been a lady, someone who was wanted ...

Melanie Dickerson

#16. This singular belief that God exists beyond or outside the Earth...shaped a paradigm that led to a disconnection between people and all other species. Prior to medieval Christianity, and for the majority of humankind's time, the sacred was deemed to exist in a vast variety of forms found on Earth.

Catriona MacGregor

#17. It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. It meant that I have not been honest with you, Jon Calder, and if you are to understand the danger you are in now, I must tell you everything, no matter if you believe me or not.

Hank Edwards

#18. To look after a medieval estate, one required a map, an indexed account book and an abacus. For its time, this was a highly sophisticated geographical information system. Looking after the earth and each of its parts requires more data, a better index and more data processing.

Tom Turner

#19. 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

#20. Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time wasn't money in the same way; in the medieval age it was regarded as sinful for money to be the object of your life.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

#22. This is the last time we run, lass, I swear it," he vowed hoarsely, grabbing her hand. "But this time, we have to run like hell." - Tadhg to his Maggie

Kris Kennedy

#23. Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

James Frain

#24. 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

#25. This was raw. This was primal. This was real.

Angela Quarles

#26. Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

T.L. Parker

#27. There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#28. If I could just spend all my time drawing made up medieval buildings that would be great.

Maia Kobabe

#29. Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?

Angela Quarles

#30. She ... grabbed her bra, clasping it and shoving her arms through.
"Ye harness your udders?" The man was insufferable.
"For your information, it's a bra - short for brassiere, something that wasn't invented until the twentieth century.

Amy Jarecki

#31. Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

Robert Winston

#32. Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

Alison Weir

#33. I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#34. '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

#35. The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Timothy Radcliffe

#36. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Dante Alighieri

#37. 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

#38. 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