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Quotes About Evening

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light.
~ Marilynne Robinson
When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.
~ Annie Ernaux
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
There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.
~ Anthony Powell
ON his way out of the museum Atwater passed Nosworth, arguing in the evening sunshine with a party of negroes, who stood about him in ungainly positions, near in spirit to the Anglo-Saxon attitudes of First Messenger.
~ Anthony Powell
The evening was warm, and almost transparent in its clearness, and very quiet.
~ Anthony Trollope
Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.
~ Aristotle
Dit was hoe het leven ging. Mensen verdwenen. En soms kwamen die mensen weer terug, op een avond, in de vroege zomer. Net op het moment dat je de ovenschotel in de oven had gedaan, maar dat konden ze niet weten.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
~ Art Buchwald
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
~ Art Buchwald
The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)
~ Shirley Hazzard
The sun is over the yardarm
~ Shirley Jackson
By the time she was standing up and in her bathrobe the day had fallen into its routine; after the first involuntary rebellion against every day's alarm she subsided regularly into the shower, make-up, dress, breakfast schedule which would take her through the beginning of the day and out into the morning where she could forget the green grass and the hot sun and begin to look forward to dinner and the evening.
~ Shirley Jackson
I don't stay after I set out dinner," Mrs. Dudley went on. "Not after it begins to get dark. I leave before dark comes.
~ Shirley Jackson
Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
~ Simon Raven
Es wird Abend, aber die Luft ist noch lau. Dies ist einer jener ergreifender Augenblicke, in denen Erde und Menschen so vollkommen miteinander harmonieren, dass es unmöglich scheint, jemanden zu finden, der nicht glücklich ist.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block.
~ Sinclair Lewis
So this evening has gone about as hideously as it possibly could. There's only one solution, which is to keep drinking wine until my nerves have been numbed or I pass out. Whichever comes first. Supper
~ Sophie Kinsella
The sky is an endless, evening blue and there's the smell of honeysuckle in the air. Music is burbling away gently in the background and Nathaniel's hand is resting casually on my thigh. I have never felt so content in my life.
~ Sophie Kinsella
CHOR. Denn weder reifen des herrlichen Landes Früchte noch tauchen bei ihren Geburten aus qualvollen Schmerzen empor die Frauen; doch einen zum andern kannst du sehen gleich gut befiederten Vögeln, jäher als unwiderstehliches Feuer losfliegen dem Strande zu des abenddunkeln Gottes.
~ Sophocles
Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life," Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.
~ J. K. Rowling
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
~ Woody Allen