Top 372 Medieval Quotes & Sayings

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

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights.

The church has contributed nothing to civilization. It has progressed somewhat, and it has become a little more decent, in reflection of the movements of civilization that have taken place outside of the church and usually in the face of the strong opposition of the church. But the church has always resisted the process of civilization. It has struggled to the last ditch, by fair means and foul, to preserve as long as it could the vestiges of ancient and medieval theology, with all the puerile moralities and harsh customs and medieval styles of belief.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The Islamic State is using medieval tactics.

I loved studying the Medieval world; that's why I love 'Game of Thrones.'

I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before - as a group, we have never seen before, what's happening right now.The medieval times - I mean, we studied medieval times - not since medieval times have people seen what's going on. I would bring back waterboarding and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.

Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you like a refill on your Pepsi? ;So there were no utensils but there was Pepsi?; Dude, I got a lot of tables to wait

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

One of my favourite things to think about is, if you could be invisible and go back in time, where would you go? I've always said ancient Egypt. I would love to see them building the pyramids, and I've always had a real fascination with medieval time and monarchy in medieval times.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

I have a real passion for anything medieval, which is why I love the drama series 'Game Of Thrones.'

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in medieval Spanish poetry.

I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.