Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 19. Lord Henry to Dorian, after Dorian says that he is giving up his evil ways and had begun his good actions the previous before while staying in a country inn. Dorian’s temptor Henry, who lured him onto the path of the unbridled pursuit of pleasure and sin, mocks his protégé in this passage.