Karen Maitland Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Karen Maitland:

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
~Karen Maitland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#dbd72cf6

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#9af17bff

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#99223824

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#9329df6a

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#191aab90

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#62b3a9e3

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
~Karen Maitland


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/karen-maitland-quotes/#458cdcd1

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