Winter Time Quotes

• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

  Edith Sitwell

  Home, Winter, Weather

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

  Deborah Kerr

  Memories, Winter, Environmental

  "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. 1957.

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• 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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• In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

  Edna O'Brien

  Spring, Real, Winter

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• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Tree, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “Journal”

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

  Stanley Crawford

  Winter, Thinking, Luxury

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Grief, Kissing

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

  Plutarch

  Summer, Winter, Land

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Winter, Bad Mood, Cold

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Winter, Conquer

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.88

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• It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

  Boris Pasternak

  Snow, World, Tables

  Boris Pasternak, “Winter Night”

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• No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

  Frank Bolles

  Spring, Winter, Knowing

  Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

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