Autumnal Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
— Walt Whitman
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He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
— John Dryden
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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
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It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which…
— Washington Irving
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to…
— Nick Tosches
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I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted,…
— Anne Robinson
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity…
— Alexander Smith
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However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.
— Fujiwara no Teika
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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
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
— John Donne
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
— P.D. James
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived
— Truman Capote
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
— Charles Nodier
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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
Who Wrote These Autumnal Quotes
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