Afternoon Quote by Ian Mcewan

“Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.”

Ian Mcewan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Afternoon Blame Feels Foolish Forgiven Forgiveness Heat Light Mad Thinking Truth is Way Your presence

More by Ian Mcewan

“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise…

Ian McEwan

Image

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Ian Mcewan

Image

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

Ian Mcewan

Image

“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.”

Ian McEwan

Image

“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling…

Ian McEwan

Image

“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening…

Ian McEwan

Image

“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,…

Ian McEwan

Image

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice…

Ian Mcewan

Image

“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have…

Ian McEwan

Image

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

Ian Mcewan

Image

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play…

Ian Mcewan

Image

I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually…

Ian Mcewan

Image

Explore all 496 Ian Mcewan quotes

More Afternoon quotes

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Sydney Pollack

Image

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she…

Steven Wright

Image

Honestly, I'm living my fantasy. It's being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing…

Meredith Vieira

Image

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around…

Jay-Z

Image

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

Nicholas Haslam

Image

I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever…

Lester Bangs

Image

“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Image

At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A…

Anonymous

Image

The shadows in the early morning don't tell much. The shadows rest at that time. So it's useless to gaze very early in the…

Carlos Castaneda

Image

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400…

Seth Shostak

Image

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Image

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late…

Azar Nafisi

Image

Browse all 1,039 Afternoon quotes

Afternoon Quote by Ian Mcewan

Related quotes

More by Ian Mcewan

More Afternoon quotes