Middle English Romance

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

    “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The romance and mystery is [sic] gone. Computer-processed images have no delicacy, no craftsmanship, no substance, and no soul. No love.”
    —Kim Nibblett (b. c. 1969)