Quotes About Medieval Chivalry

#1. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

#2. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

John Fowles

#3. Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

Marilyn Manson

#4. Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

Cornel West

#5. 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

#6. Waiting for one's execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.

Stefan Emunds

#7. The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Mark Twain

#8. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Kelly Lynch

#10. Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

Luther Vandross

#11. Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.

Stefan Emunds

#12. I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

Lauren Willig

#13. At least I'm the one leaving. It's so much easier to leave than to be left.

Stefan Emunds

#14. You have to be patient. Litigants are emotionally involved - they're suing or being sued, or they've been in an accident or they're charged (with a crime). They are not very objective about their situation.

Steven Pacey

#15. 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

#16. Remember that what gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will happen. Or won't happen. And that we succeed or fail, gradually then suddenly, one conversation at a time.

Susan Scott

#17. The world eclipses and it's just her and him. No it's just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate him, she turns him inside out. Then, her eyes drop him like a boring toy.

Stefan Emunds

#18. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Stefan Emunds

#19. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Ian Hislop