Middle English Romance

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

    In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    —J.M. (John Millington)

    Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
    Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

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