14th Century Quotes
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14th Century Quotes & Sayings
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
— Barbara Tuchman
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
— E.W. Howe
Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen.
— Debasish Mridha
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
— Julian Fellowes
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
— Ken Follett
But you, you can never do anything hard. And I let you be that way.
— Gabrielle Zevin
In the case of a Gascon seigneur of the 14th century who left 100 livres to those whom I deflowered, if they can be found.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Blow the smoke off me and I'm not half bad.
— Jerry Peterson
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
— Dean Cavanagh
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
— Julie Burchill
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
— Barbara Tuchman
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
— Jack Whitehall
Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
— Barbara Tuchman
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
— George W. Bush