February Quotes

• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Winter, Jugs

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Every mile is two in winter

  George Herbert

  Life, Winter, Two

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.179

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• If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -

  Marc Parent

  Lasting Change, Dreamer, Doers

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• February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Heaven, Mountain

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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• in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.

  Patience Strong

  Regret

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Smell, One Day

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

  William Shakespeare

  Storm, Frost, Matter

  1598 Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.40-2.

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• In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Relationship, Thinking Of You, Money

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• Late February days; and now, at last,
  Might you have thought that
  Winter's woe was past;
  So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

  William Morris

  Winter, Past, Air

  William Morris (1871). “The Earthly Paradise: December: The golden apples; The fostering of Aslaug. January: Bellerophon at Argos; The ring given to Venus. February: Bellerophon in Lycia; The hill of Venus. Epilogue. L'envoi”, p.368

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  White, Black, Shade

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• the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

  Katherine Paterson

  People, Reason, Ends

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
  There are Spring violets under the snow.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Spring, Winter, Snow

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.16

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• Wan February with weeping cheer,
  Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
  Down misty roads of mire and rime,
  Before thy pale and fitful face
  The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
  Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
  Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
  But lit with hopes that light the year's.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Morning, Cheer, Eye

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

  Katherine Paterson

  Mean, August, Bully

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
  In floating, curling sprays,
  The golden flower comes shining though the woods
  These February days;
  Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
  To bring her gayly in,
  This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida -
  The yellow jessamine.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Sweet, Stars, Flower

  Clare Benedict, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1930*). “Five Generations (1785-1923): Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson”

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• Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Love, Family, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Feb 14, 2014

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• February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

  Shirley Jackson

  Summer, Winter, Air

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.781, Macmillan

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• The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Information, Lasts, March

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Winter, Flames

  Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager

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• February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Wish, Used, Folly

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• February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Dawn, Frost

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.51, Penguin

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• The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.

  Philip Greenspun

  Art, Stars, Book

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Long, Snow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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