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English Countryside Quotes

Beauty, boredom, and dark humor from rural England.

These English countryside quotes swing between real affection and open dismissal, with one admitting to despising it for years for lacking real Adventure or danger. Another calls it staggeringly Beautiful, listing fishing and clay-pigeon shooting among its pleasures.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Black Comedy
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Rachel Cusk

Death
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Nov 07, 2020

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Quotes by Liz Williams

Despised
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Jim Crace

Fishing
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Guy Ritchie

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Elizabeth George

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Bill Bryson

A darker observation notes that violent death can feel oddly cosy only somewhere this quiet, while another points to strange, quaint social divisions still found in rural communities. Together they suggest the countryside is rich material for Black Comedy.

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