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Quotes About Evening

...Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night....
~ Charlotte Turner Smith
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.
~ Cheryl Strayed
One of the choice bits of fathering is telling fairy tales in the heel of the evening when the tireless legs have begun to drag a little and the running tongue pauses a bit in its outpouring. Here is fun and sly gleaning of lore and guide posts to pleasant roads and a hint of fine taste. A good story cries out to be told and the art of listening needs to be cultivated as much as the greatly desired gift of telling.
~ Angelo Patri, 1924
sunset ablaze in carpe-diem pink fleeting moments of glowing gold feathered in hourglass-sands gray with the lucent glimmer of infinity— and thus the blissful evening sky exhales gently the passing day and lights up in its elation that the world has made it through to relive night's starry bouquet
~ Terri Guillemets
It was now evening, and by the dim light we could just discern the savage countenances around us, gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder; the naked forms and tattooed limbs of brawny warriors, with here and there the slighter figures of young girls... Nothing can exceed the fierce gesticulation of these people when animated in conversation, and on this occasion they gave loose to all their natural vivacity, shouting and dancing about in a manner that well-night intimidated us.
~ Herman Melville, Typee
rainy evening dilemma: chamomile or earl grey
~ Terri Guillemets
Day holds the sky with big blue arms Until the sun sends her off into evening With a grateful blaze of vibrant colors
~ Terri Guillemets
Morning golden hour is the warm glow of the day's potential Evening golden hour is nature's afterglow to a day well spent
~ Terri Guillemets
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – At Evening, it is not At Morning, in a Truffled Hut It stop upon a Spot...
~ Emily Dickinson, c. 1874
Continue ye merry notes! The evening is mild, the sea is calm and bright as any mirror.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thanks, Fi. Well, you've really freed up my evening.' He doesn't sound completely thrilled. 'Good. I was hoping I could drop by, maybe. But I didn't want to watch Morse .' 'Whereabouts are you?' 'Peering in through your front window. Is that a new sofa?
~ Harry Bingham
Honestly, we don't kick or bite or throw potatoes at all our guests." A crooked smile touched Lord Bradford's lips. "Your family has spirit," he said, taking his hat from Azalea. "I enjoyed the evening." "Well, yes, you've just come from a war," said Azalea.
~ Heather Dixon
In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.
~ Lemony Snicket
It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry
~ Lemony Snicket
Like all such London dinner parties it ended rather early and we were home and undressing for bed before midnight. We didn't read.
~ Len Deighton
O weary heart and hand,     Go bravely to the strife— No victory is half so grand     As that which conquers life! One day shall yet be thine—     The day that waits for all Whose prayerful eyes are things divine     When evening shadows fall.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
Good evening charlie, yes I know you rise, two lean grey spiders drifting through your eyes.
~ James Wright
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
~ Jane Austen
This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
~ Jane Austen
How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
~ Jane Austen
Qué agradable es pasar así una velada! Declaro que no hay placer como la lectura. ¡Cuánto más pronto cansa cualquier otra cosa que un libro! Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.
~ Jane Austen
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
~ Jane Austen
This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.
~ Jane Austen