Home » Quote » Anthony Burgess » „…1660 virtually starts a new era – an era in which the old land-owning class sinks and the new middle-class rises, an era too in which the English character seems to have become subtly changed. A sense of guilt seems to permeate all pleasure, and this has continued to the present day…. the many living monuments to Puritan rule…. the Englishman’s peculiar restraint – the coldness that repels so many Africans and Asians, an unwillingness to ‘let oneself go’.“

„…1660 virtually starts a new era – an era in which the old land-owning class sinks and the new middle-class rises, an era too in which the English character seems to have become subtly changed. A sense of guilt seems to permeate all pleasure, and this has continued to the present day…. the many living monuments to Puritan rule…. the Englishman’s peculiar restraint – the coldness that repels so many Africans and Asians, an unwillingness to ‘let oneself go’.“

— Anthony Burgess

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