Quotes · Skopia

12 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Rural vs. urban✕clear

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches · 1892

★ 1.2

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 1.3

God made the country, and man made the town.

1785

★ 1.9

All great art is born of the metropolis.

1913

★ 1.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Genesis 25:27

1405 BC

★ 2.3

He likes the country, but in truth must own, Most likes it, when he studies it in town.

1782

★ 3.5

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

1820

★ 3.5

It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.

Marcus Terentius Varro

27 BC

★ 3.6

I see the rural virtues leave the land.

Oliver Goldsmith

1770

★ 3.6

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

1787

★ 3.7

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Jane: The Invitation · 1822

★ 3.7

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

The country places and the trees won't teach me anything, and the people in the city do.

Plato, Phaedrus · 370 BC

★ 4.0