Middle English Romance

Famous quotes containing the words middle, english and/or romance:

    Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.
    bell hooks (b. 1955)

    He that seeks trouble never misses.
    —17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    The realism of failure, the romance of success.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)