Drowned Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

— Evelyn Waugh

“lost: greenery, fresh air and once in a while a glimpse of the river that still had the ability to reflect sunlight. Once the…

— Annelie Wendeberg

The Thames is liquid history.

— John Burns

“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

For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they…

— John Buchan

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

— Bible

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

— Salman Rushdie

“The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but…

— J.G. Ballard

“Soon the river would narrow and carve through water rushes and overhanging trees still dripping with weed and flotsam from the previous high tide;…

— Sarah Winman

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties,…

— Norman Mailer

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift…

— Harvey Broome