Englishmen Quote by Helen Simonson

“Maybe God created the rain to remind us that life isn't always a sunny day.”

— Val Irvin Mabayo

“And now the rains had really come, so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene.…

— Chinua Achebe

“I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and…

— Lucinda Rosenfeld

“My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only topic where people here felt comfortably expressive, and…

— Louise Erdrich

“In her mind, men were no different than droughty weather or a sudden burst of rainless storm.”

— Robert Olmstead

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon…

— Charles Dickens

“I don`t know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she…

— Patrick McCabe

“As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting…

— Ruth Downie

“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants,…

— Diogenes

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald