The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]

Everyone's work is equally important.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Did you come out of the womb a dickhead or develop that jockstrap personality on your own? (Hunter)

Remember the White Knight.