Middle English Romance

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

    Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Civilisation—a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
    Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    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)