Middle English Romance

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

    “Death cut the strings that gave me life,
    And handed me to Sorrow,
    The only kind of middle wife
    My folks could beg or borrow.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “I’ve sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
    —J.M. (James Matthew)

    “Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)