WIST Quotations

Jerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On the Weather” (1886)

Dave — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:05:09 +0000

It always is wretched weather, according to us. The weather is like the Government, always in the wrong. In summer time we say it is stifling; in winter that it is killing; in spring and autumn we find fault with it for being neither one thing nor the other, and wish it would make up its mind. If it is fine, we say the country is being ruined for want of rain; if it does rain, we pray for fine weather. If December passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what has become of our good old-fashioned winters, and talk as if we had been cheated out of something we had bought and paid for; and when it does snow, our language is a disgrace to a Christian nation. We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather, and keeps it to himself.
If that cannot be arranged, we would rather do without it altogether.

Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On the Weather” (1886)
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First published in Home Chimes (1885-07-11).

Byron, George Gordon, Lord -- Don Juan, Canto 1, st. 63 (1818)

Dave — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:51:47 +0000

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery,
Is much more common where the climate’s sultry.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Don Juan, Canto 1, st. 63 (1818)
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Austen, Jane -- Letter (1796-09-18) to Cassandra Austen

Dave — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:37:27 +0000

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1796-09-18) to Cassandra Austen
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Camus, Albert -- “Return to Tipasa,” Summer (1954)

Dave — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright
“Return to Tipasa,” Summer (1954)