Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by A. E. Coppard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer A. E. Coppard.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
A. E. Coppard

Alfred Edgar Coppard was an English writer and poet, noted for his influence on the short story form.

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. — © A. E. Coppard
Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
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