In no particular order...
"What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing."
- Willem Lange
"To the rest of the country, New England has always stood in much the same relation as England has to America -- that of spiritual homeland and mother country."
- B.A. Botkin
"New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying it."
- Cleveland Amory
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February."
- Joseph Wood Krutch
"New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions."
- John Updike
“If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”
- Mark Twain
“Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England”
- Horace Porter
"I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either."
- John Updike
Sources:
- The Heart of New England: Quotes by New Englanders
- SearchQuotes: New England Quotes
- Thinkexist.com: New England Quotes
- GoodReads: Quotes About New England
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