Middle Ages Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm my age and I feel glorious.

  Betty Friedan

  Age, Feels, Glorious

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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 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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• 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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• I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

  Nigel Cole

  Men, People, Film

  "Ladies Man: 'Made in Dagenham' Director Nigel Cole". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

  Tucker Carlson

  Age, Superstitions, Absence

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• Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Age, Texture

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Book, Writing, Science

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• In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

  P. D. James

  Reality, Risk, Age

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.211, Vintage

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• I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.

  George Sand

  Wise, Kings, Race

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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

  E. M. Forster

  Age, Horror, Middle

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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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• Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Thirty, Middle, Workshops

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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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• 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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• 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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• The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Years, Ideas, Humanity

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 581, 1978.

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