English Climate Quotes

It does get hot in England from time to time.

An English summer's day is wonderful, but sometimes you have to look hard to find one!

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'

In England, it's always raining, and I feel like I'm expert in that field.

British summers give me a really happy feeling.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.

People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] 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.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.