Quotes About English Weather

#1. 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

#2. I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

Michael Mina

#3. In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Peter Drucker

#4. [On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Benny Bellamacina

#6. One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

Deanna Raybourn

#7. I don't know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain.

Patrick McCabe

#8. Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

Charles Kingsley

#9. 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

#10. English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Maureen Johnson

#11. ... there are shadows because there are hills.

E. M. Forster

#12. But all along she had held within her a second story underneath the first, waging a terrible and silent battle with her certainty.

Lauren Groff

#13. Which is great, since my English teacher hates late students like I hate riding my motorcycle in forty-degree weather while it rains.

Katie McGarry

#14. The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts ... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

Maureen Johnson

#15. I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.

Rachel Hurd-Wood

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

P.D. James

#17. The English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

Ruth Rendell

#18. Valdez," said Coach Hedge with surprising gentleness. "Let me take the wheel. You've been steering for two hours."
"Two hours?"
"Yeah. Give me the wheel."
"Coach?"
"Yeah, kid?"
"I can't unclench my hands.

Rick Riordan

#19. It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.

Sarah Gavron

#20. He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought
some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.

Helen Simonson

#21. Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

Gretchen Bleiler

#22. In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.

Ellen Dissanayake

#23. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

Eoin Colfer

#24. The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.

Leslie White