Middle English Romance

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

    “No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

    “I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven’t got that.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)