Middle Ages Quotes - Page 4

• Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

  Derek Bailey

  Player, Middle, Young

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• Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Islam, Age

  "Living Novelistically". Interview with Richard Wolinksy, www.guernicamag.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

  Lytton Strachey

  Writing, Past, Style

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• I'm my age and I feel glorious.

  Betty Friedan

  Age, Feels, Glorious

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• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, People, Age

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• Fear comes with middle age.

  Lillian Hellman

  Age, Middle

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

  Cyril Connolly

  Infidelity, Age, Causes

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• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  Tamora Pierce

  Nuts, Age, Stuff

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

  Hans Arp

  Artist, Working Together, Age

  "Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture". Book by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, p. 118, "Abstract Art, Concrete Art", 2005.

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• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

  Quentin Crisp

  Years, Age, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 12, 1968.

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Passion, Europe

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Fashion, Thinking, Careers

  "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Horror, Middle

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• In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

  Jose Rizal

  Age, Devil, Today

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, November 11, 1892.

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• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Years, Civilization, Progress

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• My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

  Renata Adler

  Uncles, Cancer, Grandmother

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.62, New York Review of Books

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• The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

  Orson Welles

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Holiday, Years, Age

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• There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

  Goldwin Smith

  Art, Believe, People

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

  Brad Stephan Gregory

  Religious, Art, War

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mirrors, Hatred, Age

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband

  Jules Michelet

  Husband, Fear, Wife

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• Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Age, Generations, Middle

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