"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction,……" — E. M. Forster
"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…
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More Countryside Quotes
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things…
— Bill Bryson
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of…
— Bill Bryson
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
— Bill Bryson
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In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really…
— Bill Bryson
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime…
— Billy Campbell
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I…
— Hugo Chavez
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents…
— Monica Baldwin
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To…
— Ian Cawsey
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I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many…
— Ian Cawsey
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