Evening Quotes

1181 Evening quotes by 890 unique authors

Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up… — Stephen King
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it… — Tana French
Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for… — Cecelia Ahern
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to… — Philippa Gregory
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond… — Richard Brautigan
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree… — Virginia Woolf
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to… — John Cheever
She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs – pansies and rosemary… — Francesca Lia Block
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly… — John Ashbery
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow. — Hermann Hesse
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red… — Woodrow Wilson
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The evening had turned sweet and blue. — Alice Hoffman
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... — David Bowie
The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but… — Jasper Fforde
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged… — Karen Hawkins
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming… — Paul Verlaine
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How… — Roger Zelazny
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. — Dean Koontz
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the… — Cormac McCarthy
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf

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