Middle English Creole

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or english:

    “A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    “You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)