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Quotes About Evening

When, on a summer evening, the melodious sky growls like a tawny lion, and everyone is complaining of the storm, it is the memory of the Méséglise way that makes me stand alone in ecstasy, inhaling, through the noise of the falling rain, the lingering scent of invisible lilacs.
~ Marcel Proust
Dr. Cottard felt bound to say good night as soon as they rose from table, so as to go back to some patient who was seriously ill; "I don't know," Mme. Verdurin would say, "I'm sure it will do him far more good if you don't go disturbing him again this evening; he will have a good night without you; to-morrow morning you can go round early and you will find him cured.
~ Marcel Proust
Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it always harmonizes with the colors of the sky and it is deeply stirred by its most delicate nuances. The sea radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.
~ Marcel Proust
LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.
~ John Sandford
Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.
~ John Steinbeck
In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light -- that our betters spoke of.
~ John Steinbeck
The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet
~ John Updike
For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.
~ John Williams
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
~ Pope John Paul II
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.
~ Unknown
there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom of darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
~ Marcel Proust
That hateful staircase, up which I always passed with such dismay, gave out a smell of varnish which had to some extent absorbed, made definite and fixed the special quality of sorrow that I felt each evening, and made it perhaps even more cruel to my sensibility because, when it assumed this olfactory guise, my intellect was powerless to resist it.
~ Marcel Proust
They knew the address. They went to the house. They did not see its mistress. But at dinner that evening she would say: "I hear they've
~ Marcel Proust
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
~ Margaret Forster
as might have been expected, in the dinner-jacket he had worn on the previous evening. His explanation was characteristic. 'Most extraordinary,' he said, in his slightly high-pitched voice.
~ Margery Allingham
Soda-the only good part of tonight Colin McCauley
~ Unknown
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
~ Lillian Gordy Carter
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.
~ T. S. Eliot
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
~ Lewis Carroll
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 only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
~ W. H. Auden
I'd say I'm not a morning person but I'm really not sure I'm an evening person either.
~ Unknown