Quotes About Medieval Literature

#1. I launched into a discourse on the gradual contraction of medieval oaths invoking the Virgin Mother Mary's menstrual blood and the seepage of Christ's wounds, astounded to find any use for my college study of medieval literature.

Hope Jahren

#2. I have a master's degree in medieval literature. Wyverns - or firedrakes, if you prefer - were once common in European mythology and legends." "But you . . . you're my accountant," Sarah sputtered. "Do you have any idea how many English majors are accountants?" Vivian asked with raised eyebrows.

Deborah Harkness

#3. 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

#4. ...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

#5. In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

Danny Gokey

#7. Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

Judith Lennox

#8. Real friends ... don't give you heroin and cocaine." He took a step closer. "And they don't stand by and do nothing if they think one of their buddies is doing drugs.

Karen Kingsbury

#9. Every night, I slip into the empty winter land of memory.

Ned Hayes

#10. It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Rick Derringer

#11. 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

#12. A little style is a good thing, but you can't trust a person who won't be ugly in front of you.

Victor LaValle

#13. Spain's churches, monuments, language, and literature are richly redolent of a unique, multifaith heritage. Muslims, Christians, and Jews had worked, worshipped, and interacted in Spain on a scale unparalleled and even unimaginable elsewhere in the medieval West.

Christopher Lowney

#14. His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,
As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

Geoffrey Chaucer