He's quoting Aristotle and Boethius and the laws of chivalry and the dreicher speils of the Chevalier de Bayard on loyalty and the ethics of warfare.
Another quoted Aristotle: "The soul never thinks without a picture."
He was quoting Aristotle, who had drawn the same conclusion three centuries before, and Plato's view of the poet as one possessed by a 'divine madness'.
"I'm quoting Aristotle."
'Equals should be treated as equals and unequals as unequals,' " Professor K. D. Irani, a philosophy professor, said quoting Aristotle.
Bartolome de Las Casas, the Dominican missionary, held for the affirmative, while the learned jurist Juan Gines de Sepulveda, quoting Aristotle, held that slavery is a natural form of life.
It may seem odd to quote Aristotle in connection with a dance program for children.
She quotes Leviticus and Aristotle.
St Thomas quotes Aristotle as saying that "to live by usury is exceedingly unnatural".
I know one or two wretched starving creatures like that who quote Aristotle at you over a fried herring and a pint of porter.