81 Medieval Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Airport Torture Leg Form Room Planes Medieval

Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690. Murray Rothbard

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

Beautiful Brought Town Up Antiquity Rhythm Whose Florence Medieval

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling. Oliver Stone

Great You Feeling Every Would Would-Be About Scene Feel Like Sort Were Get Where Story Century Ages Medieval

I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver's license and my credit card. That's how I live. I'm not carrying a wallet anymore. Like, a wallet is a medieval item, right? Patrick Pichette

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London. Peter Capaldi

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

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When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. Peter Jackson

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time. Richard Rogers

Time Style Live Believe Think Other Fine Totally Between New Renaissance Identities Well Buildings Always Dialogue Been Very Shock Different Much Next Across Each Medieval

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. Richard Rogers

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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

Time Better Revolution Worse Charles Charles Dickens Threatened Industrial Industrial Revolution Dead Were Off Dickens Times Any Childhood Children Exploited Medieval

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys. Rory MacLean

Home Breakfast Corn Spell Our Hung Evocative High City Table London Above Alley Roads Over Lee Up Canada Wall Grew Capital Map Illustrator Medieval Kerry

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute! Sasha Pieterse

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

Drawn Magical Seem Were Quite Fantasies Medieval

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman

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