Umberto Eco Quotes

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.

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

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

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.

I'm a bit of a history goon, and I love all that. Anything that's medieval-based up until, probably, the Tudor period and just after, I'm quite into.

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.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

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

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

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

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.