Top 31 Quotes About The English Countryside
#1. I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
Kenneth Branagh
#2. What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
Natalie Dormer
#3. An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows ... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
Bill Bryson
#4. The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
Guy Ritchie
#5. As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Lily Collins
#6. It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant warriot' and not 'he who hits kittens with a hammer.' You'd be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside ...
James Goss
#7. We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Gary Wright
#8. I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.
George Monbiot
#9. Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk
#10. The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
Elizabeth George
#12. I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
Jim Crace
#13. The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster
#14. Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
Jessica Mitford
#15. Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
Liz Williams
#16. Most of the black women who lived in the lower end of Vrededorp came from the countryside and were there to be near their menfolk who worked in the mines. They spoke neither English nor Afrikaans.
Peter Abrahams
#17. Knowledge is the most prized commodity in the entire universe, and it is infinite in its commodity.
Suzy Kassem
#18. If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.
Eric Thomas
#19. What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.
'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.
Natasha Pulley
#20. I came here to be for all and with all,
and what I do today in my solitude
will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.
What I say now with one heart
will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts ...
Kahlil Gibran
#21. In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White
#22. In a flurry of sharp brocade coattails and gossamer gowns cut in the Neo-Baroque fashion, the crowd turns back to their conversations, the perfect epitome of what all Aristocrats are like - bored and quickly dissatisfied with the latest trends.
A.L. Davroe
#24. In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
Yayoi Kusama
#25. At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
Cherie Lunghi
#26. I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.
Ibn Warraq
#28. Material wealth don't just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation
Sunday Adelaja
#29. He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts
a few of them
which at the moment of their coming to him had thrilled him almost like adventures.
Henry James
#30. The whole world seemed to be wounded, broken, hurting.
Pamela Clare
#31. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.
T.F. Hodge
