A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a gentleman without being English! And it is this that makes them so detested. They never fuse, they never lose their Englishness.


Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)

José Maria Eça de Queiroz Quotes

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a...

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a...

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a...

A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a...