List of Medieval Weapons - Medieval Daggers and Knives

Famous quotes containing the words medieval, daggers and/or knives:

“The medieval town, with frieze
Of boy scouts from Nagoya?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It is a very true and expressive phrase, “He looked daggers at me,” for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Through open doors, the dining-room declares
A larger loneliness of knives and glass
And silence laid like carpet.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)