"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it." - William Hazlitt, Lectures

"When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country." - William Hazlitt, Table Talk

"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live." - VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, Country Notes

"Anybody can be good in the country." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray