August Quotes

448 quotes from 362 authors

A garden in August bursts with life as kids play on warm grass under bright evenings. At the same time, some feel the month brings a heavy mood, making meals less appealing and thoughts sluggish. History also marks August with fierce events, like a bloodiest day of a revolution that changed everything.

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I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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“Your acts are your monuments”

R.J. Palacio

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August is a wicked month.

Edna O'Brien

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“Fair is in August.”

Bob Cook

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I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Satchel Paige

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

William Shakespeare

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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

Ethan Suplee

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The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

Lord Byron

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I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

Ernst Rohm

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In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

Tony Visconti

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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Victor Hugo

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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Henry Rollins

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“So much for summer love and saying "us" 'Cause you weren't mine to lose”

Taylor Swift

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There could be oil coming up until August.

Carol Browner

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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Horace Walpole

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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay…

Robert Lowell

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When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

Sarah Helen Whitman

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Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

Wallace Stevens

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If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there

Kenneth Stilling

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“When you stand on the banks of Penn Swamp Pond in August, those injuries can save your life and keep you picking…

Charles Rafferty

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The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

Francois Furet

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The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the…

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and…

Louis Bromfield

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It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the…

Freddie Highmore

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The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck…

Robert James Waller

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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from…

Edward Young

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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it,…

Benigno Aquino III

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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage…

Karl Kraus

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“August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would…

Victoria Schwab

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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay…

Robert Lowell

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My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich…

David Milch

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As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the…

Walt Whitman

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August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures…

Matthew Rohrer

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“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat…

Natalie Babbitt

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Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos…

David Sedaris

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You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really,…

Dave Barry