Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — In the Country
(1925)
“ The English home, that is tennis and warm water, the gong summoning you to lunch, books, meadows, comfort selected, stabilized and blessed by the centuries, freedom of children and patriarchal disposition of parents, hospitality and a formalism as comfortable as a dressing gown; in brief, the English home is the English home, and therefore I have drawn it from memory together with the cuckoo and the rabbit ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — In the Country
(1925)
“ The English countryside is not for work; it is for show. It is as green as a park and as immaculate as paradise. I sauntered along a grassy pathway in Surrey during a tepid shower, among the stems of broom with its yellowish blossom and russet heather which stippled the light ferns ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — In the Country
(1925)
“ You see, Uncle, they don’t think it worth the labour; they get their wheat from Australia and sugar from India and potatoes from Africa or wherever it is; you see, Uncle, these people aren’t peasants; this is only a sort of garden. ”
