Top Ten Tuesday – Book Quotes About Spring

It’s a Fall Freebie at That Artsy Reader Girl this week, or a Spring Freebie for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere… so here are some spring-themed literary quotes.

– 1 –

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg

– 2 –

“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, Great Expectations

– 3 –

“When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when the perfumed warmth of the air blows on our faces and fills our lungs, and even appears to penetrate to our heart, we feel vague longings for undefined happiness, a wish to run, to walk at random, to inhale the spring.”
– Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories

– 4 –

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

– 5 –

“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
– Dorothy Parker

– 6 –

“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

– 7 –

“O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away.”
– William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

– 8 –

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda

– 9 –

“A walk on a spring morning is better than an eighty-mile ride in a hopped-up car, you know why? Because it’s full of flavors, full of a lot of things growing.”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

– 10 –

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
‘Winter is dead.‘”
– A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young