Critical Quotes by H. E. Bates

Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make…

— H. E. Bates

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

— H. E. Bates

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical…

— H. E. Bates

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

— H. E. Bates

The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides…

— H. E. Bates

The garden that is finished is dead.

— H. E. Bates

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

— H. E. Bates