Top 50 Ian Mortimer Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ian Mortimer Quote: “The key to understanding such men is the notion of respectability. If you want to flatter a man in any walk of life, tell him he is of noble bearing and behavior and deserving of respect. Men want to serve in important positions of office in towns and manors – it adds to their stature.”

51. “The key to understanding such men is the notion of respectability. If you want to flatter a man in any walk of life, tell him he is of noble bearing and behavior and deserving of respect. Men want to serve in important positions of office in towns and manors – it adds to their stature.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “There are times in life when the cycle of the ages and the destruction of one generation’s work by the next is an uplifting thing, for it promises the young so much. And there are times, later in life, when you realise that it means that your work too will be swept away. Honestly, the only way to secure everlasting fame is to produce such a fine work that no age will ever rival it.”

52. “There are times in life when the cycle of the ages and the destruction of one generation’s work by the next is an uplifting thing, for it promises the young so much. And there are times, later in life, when you realise that it means that your work too will be swept away. Honestly, the only way to secure everlasting fame is to produce such a fine work that no age will ever rival it.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “Thus the Elizabethan character is an amalgam of rashness, boldness, resolution, and violence – all mixed in a heady brew of destructive intolerance.”

53. “Thus the Elizabethan character is an amalgam of rashness, boldness, resolution, and violence – all mixed in a heady brew of destructive intolerance.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “The larger provincial towns and cities in particular are dominated by a few merchant families who own virtually all the wealth. In Exeter, for instance, 2 percent of the population own 40 percent of the taxable property, and just 7 percent own two-thirds of it.”

54. “The larger provincial towns and cities in particular are dominated by a few merchant families who own virtually all the wealth. In Exeter, for instance, 2 percent of the population own 40 percent of the taxable property, and just 7 percent own two-thirds of it.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “In the latter part of the century townsmen sometimes avoid actual shoes, preferring to have leather soles sewn onto the foot section of their hose, so that their “shoes” are the same color as their leggings.”

55. “In the latter part of the century townsmen sometimes avoid actual shoes, preferring to have leather soles sewn onto the foot section of their hose, so that their “shoes” are the same color as their leggings.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “Give a gang of such boys swords at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and give them a lot to drink and put them under the command of a man like Sir John Arundel – and the result is a tragedy.”

56. “Give a gang of such boys swords at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and give them a lot to drink and put them under the command of a man like Sir John Arundel – and the result is a tragedy.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic, dramatic, and inspirational connections with our forebears.”

57. “Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic, dramatic, and inspirational connections with our forebears.”

— Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer Quote: “No one knits – knitting has yet to be invented –.”

58. “No one knits – knitting has yet to be invented –.”

— Ian Mortimer

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