Quotes About England Weather

#1. One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Mark Twain

#2. In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.

J. Allan Hobson

#3. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather ... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Mark Twain

#4. The English winter is long, cold and wet, just like the English summer

Benny Bellamacina

#5. The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.

Kapil Dev

#6. I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

Oscar Wilde

#7. That's a very murky position," objected Felix.
"So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.

Gail Carriger

#8. I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.

Steve Jones

#9. Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you're an alien. For an English woman, it's as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it's as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.

Angela Kiss

#10. Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Helen Cresswell

#11. I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

Amanda Donohoe

#12. It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather.

Vera Nazarian

#13. I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

Freddie Highmore

#14. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Bea Davenport

#15. If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Mark Twain

#16. Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.

Davy Jones

#17. On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.

George Mikes

#18. The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

Stan Barstow

#19. I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

Maureen Johnson

#20. In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much.

Bob Hope

#21. I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

Otis Redding

#22. In this country, we were not into detail. Europe developed detail." "Why do you think that is?" "Weather. The whole history of England consists of finding things to do out of the weather. Which tells you why Russia was even worse. That's why Russian novels have 182 characters: bad weather.

Ken Jennings

#23. The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work.

Benny Bellamacina

#24. I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

Andrew Solomon

#25. It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P.D. James

#26. Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

Franz Halder

#27. A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world ... etc. It has that look.

Edward Gorey

#28. The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

Tamsin Egerton

#29. I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

Sting

#30. Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#31. The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

Claire Forlani

#32. Not everything on TV can be edgy and irreverent, otherwise you'd end up with weather presenters shouting, 'Listen up bitches!', after which the whole of middle England would spin off its axis and someone would get strangled with a tea towel.

Richard Porter

#33. It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.

Natasha Pulley

#34. If it is true that rock stars weather into institutions, then Dylan has started now to resemble the Church of England: the dwindling popularity of his product cannot diminish the intensity of the arguments among his congregation.

Robert Sandall

#35. The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!

Salman Rushdie

#36. I truly believe that as a novelist, you cannot adequately describe the weather in England - the light, the dampness, the bitterness, the summer softness, and so on - without having experienced it.

Stephanie Laurens