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“The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.”

Two Shows Imagination Clothes England Evening Two Things Worn Old Lady

Book:The Little Virtues

Source: The Little Virtues

“Well-bred English people never have imagination.”

People Wells Imagination England

Book:Clouds of Witness

Source: Clouds of Witness

“Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.”

May Imagination Quality Diversity England Preparation Originality Consumption Selection Elegance

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.”

Ifs Imagination England Alarmists

Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.”

Imagination England Disappointed

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.”

Character Imagination Quality Class Middle Integrity England Characteristics Hypocrisy Middle Class Efficiency Caution Solidity

Author:E. M. Forster

“I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.”

Knows Heart Ideas America Imagination Inspire England Warm Envy Horrible No Idea My Imagination Withered Spiteful Peachy

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.”

Feels Book Use America Film Girl Term Imagination Simple Loneliness Window England Train Extremes Location Adaptation

Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel.”

“It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.”

Giving Believe Hate Order Passion Imagination England Raises Believe In Me Scope Insulting

Book:The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

Source: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”

Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)

“M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the story take your imagination away. Come visit an enchanted eighteenth-century England and meet two desperate lovers caught in the web of a sinister lord with great magical power. Romantic and lyrical, this tale will fill your reading time with pleasure. I loved it.”

Kind Two Book Stories Reading Imagination Pleasure Lord Magic Century Lovers Comfortable England Caught Tales Desperate Curls Lyrical Sinister Enchanted Armchairs Desperate Love

Author:Catherine Asaro