English Country

Famous quotes containing the words english country, english and/or country:

    “The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “What shall we do with country quiet now?
    A motor drones insanely in the blue
    Like a bad bird in a dream.”
    —Babette Deutsch (1895–1982)