No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen…

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

— John Donne

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

— George Croly

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

— Anonymous

“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.”

— Hermann Hesse

Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is…

— Tom Stoppard

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

— John Milton

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“At the last market of the season I still had produce to sell. My pumpkin vines had flourished, so I could lay out eighteen…

— Louisa Morgan

“Kent Falls set against a backdrop of autumnal color.”

— Lonely Planet

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”

— E.M. Forster

“...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.”

— Sarah Vowell

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

— Howard Roberts

I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense…

— Patience Strong

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

— Charles Nodier