160 Quotes About Medieval

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

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.

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.

They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.

Satan's hairy ass!

You change the world, but the world changes you, too. There’s no getting around it. I have to survive here, no matter what it costs me.

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.

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'.

These men were not servants, but masters; not the agents of community, but seekers after divine love and wisdom. They undertook their work with high consecration. And the academy or the university was a place consecrated to the apprehension of an order more than human and a duty more than mundane.