Evening Quotes

1181 Evening quotes by 890 unique authors

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first… — Raymond Chandler
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. — W G Sebald
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make… — D.E. Stevenson
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern… — Larry McMurtry
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin… — Kathleen Norris
If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. — S. J. Perelman
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole… — Anne Frank
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as… — Jane Austen
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers… — Neil Gaiman
I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed… — Woody Allen
He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days… — Dean Koontz
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow,… — Neil Gaiman
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. — Anthony Burgess
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when… — Carl Sandburg
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread… — Diane Setterfield
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again… — Banana Yoshimoto
Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the… — C.S. Lewis
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd… — David Benioff
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with… — David Sedaris

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