Quotations About / On: ISLAND

  • 41.
    The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. repr. In Abinger Harvest (1936). Notes on the English Character (1920). Forster defined English hypocrisy as "unconscious deceit" and "muddle-headedness.")
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  • 42.
    What I am now warning the People of is, That the News-Papers of this Island are as pernicious to weak Heads in England as ever Books of Chivalry to Spain; and therefore shall do all that in me lies, with the utmost Care and Vigilance imaginable, to prevent these growing Evils.
    (Richard Steele (1672-1729), British author. The Tatler, No. 178 (1710).)
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  • 43.
    Not in Utopia,—subterranean Fields,—
    Or some secreted Island, Heaven knows where!
    But in the very world, which is the world
    Of all of us,—the place where in the end
    We find our happiness, or not at all!
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. The Prelude; XI. France (l. 140-144). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  • 44.
    Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty- five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while he was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.
    (Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. repr. (1966). Tropic of Capricorn, p. 89 (1938).)
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  • 45.
    I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under an English speaking government and are a part of the territory of an English speaking nation.... While I appreciated the desirability of maintaining their grasp on the Spanish language, the beauty of that language and the richness of its literature, that as a practical matter for them it was quite necessary to have a good comprehension of English.
    (Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), U.S. president. Press conference (May 20, 1927). Reviewing his remarks to a delegation from Puerto Rico.)
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  • 46.
    Next (?) [sic] came the fort on George's Island. These are bungling contrivances: not our fortes, but our foibles. Wolfe sailed by the strongest fort in North America in the dark, and took it.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Cape Cod (1855-1865), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 267, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 47.
    By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 258, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 48.
    I know that that island will not be perfect,
    it will have the flaws of life,
    the absurdities of the dinner table,
    but there will be a door
    and I will open it
    and I will get rid of the rat inside of me....
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Rowing.")
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  • 49.
    The island dreams under the dawn
    And great boughs drop tranquillity;
    The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
    A parrot sways upon a tree,
    Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.
    (William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Indian to his Love.")
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  • 50.
    Beware the/easy griefs, that fool and fuel nothing./It is too easy to cry "AFRIKA!"/and shock thy street,/and purse thy mouth,/and go home to thy "Gunsmoke," to/thy "Gilligan's Island" and the NFL.
    (Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet, fiction writer, and autobiographer. "Another Preachment to Blacks," lines 28-32 (1981). Gunsmoke and Gilligan's Island were popular television shows that ran in syndication for years. Light entertainment, they included no significant African American characters or considerations of serious issues. "NFL" refers to the National Football League—i.e., televised professional football games.)
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