Sunday quotes

Suffolk used to worship Sunday, not God.

- Ronald George Blythe
  Akenfield, ch.6.

Don't let us be familiar or fond, nor kiss before folks, like my Lady Fadler and Sir Francis: nor go to Hyde-Park together the first Sunday in a new chariot, to provoke eyes and whispers, and then never be seen there together again; as if we were proud of one another the first week, and ashamed of one another ever after† Let usbe verystrangeandwell-bred: Let usbe asstrangeasif wehad beenmarried a great while, and aswell-bred as if we were not married at all.

-William Congreve
  Millamant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.5.

   A duller spectaclethis earth of ourshas not toshow than a rainy Sunday in London.

-Johnny (John Christopher) Depp
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (originally serialized in the London Magazine, published1822).

Here of a Sunday morning My love and I would lie, And see the coloured counties, And hear the larks so high About us in the sky.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.21.

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  Over the Footlights,'Why I Refuse to Play Golf'.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

- (Lula) Carson ne  e Smith McCullers
  Clock Without Hands.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.Like whentheysay 'Asit wasin the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end'.

-Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.4, pt.1.

   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  A Child's Christmas inWales.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

- Harry S Truman
  Of presidential hopeful Eisenhower. Quoted in Richard M Nixon RN: Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978).