Middle English Romance

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

    Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
    —18th-century English proverb.

    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)