England Quote by E.M. Forster

“England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary…

— E.M. Forster

“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the…

— Virginia Woolf

“ The War Sonnets: V . The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign…

— Rupert Brooke

“She took the sea with her Not beaches but the grey relentless Irish sea, its rhythm and the crying gulls.”

— Caroline Davies

“Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro— And what should they know of England who only England know? The…

— Rudyard Kipling

“O, let us pay the time but needful woe, Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs. This England never did, nor never shall,…

— William Shakespeare

“She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an…

— D H Lawrence

“You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The wind blustered in from the sea, setting the horses’ manes streaming sideways, and the gulls wheeled mewing against the blue-and-grey tumble of the…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing.…

— Harper Fox

“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden to the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Here on the coast of Normandy, at this hour of the morning, I needed no one. The very gulls’ presence bothered me: I drove…

— Emil Cioran