Dorset Quotes

“There were coloured etchings of great delicacy and an interesting study of the "Old Harry" rock in the days when "His Wife" stood proudly by his side.
It was of course, in the early years of this century that the latter disappeared during a storm which wrecked the Old Chain Pier at Brighton, but Mr Berens has lived long enough in Studland to have seen the pair stand united and to transpose them to his canvas.”
― Olive Knott, Dorset Again

“I went to door; an’ out vrom trees above
My head, upon the blast by me,
Sweet blossoms wer a-cast by me,
As if my Love, a-past by me,
Did fling em down—a token ov her love.”
― William Barnes

“After tea I went on deck again; it was a warm evening, one of those fragrant autumn nights when one should be sleeping in the upstairs room of a Dorset cottage, the windows flung wide open on to an orchard.”
― Anthony Rhodes, Sword of Bone