Middle English Romance

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

    “When you’re alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright
    When you’re alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you in the head
    You’ve had a cream of a nightmare dream and you’ve got the hoo-ha’s coming to you.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically—while simulating a triumphant march forward—than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?”
    —Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

    “Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)