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)

    “English Bob: What I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk, of course, and that you broke your bloody neck.
    Little Bill Daggett: I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead. ‘Til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska.”
    —David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. English Bob (Richard Harris)

    “While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)