Quotes About April

The month of showers that nurture flowers

You don’t have to be a fool to love April. After all, it’s the month of defrosting, when the remnants of the winter begin to melt and we can see brighter days on the horizon. These quotes are for the month that brings the showers that nurture next month’s flowers.

1. “No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.” -Hal Borland

2. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” -William Shakespeare 3. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” -George Orwell

4. “Sweet April’s tears Dead on the hem of May.” -Alexander Smith

5. “There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.” -William Cullen Bryant

6. “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, ‘Go!’” -Christopher Morley

7. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” -Thomas Tusser

8. “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” -T.S. Eliot

9. “April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.” -Angus Wilson

10. “But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.” -William Cowper

11. “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” -Marty Rubin

12. “Black butterflies making love — April moon.” -Mike Garofalo

13. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” -William Shakespeare

14. “They came on one of April’s most brilliant days — a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon…a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.” -Beverley Nichols

15. “Now the noisy winds are still April’s coming up the hill All the spring is in her train Led by shining ranks of rain Pit, pat, patter, clatter Sudden sun and clatter patter All things ready with a will April’s coming up the hill!” -Mary Mapes Dodge

16. “When March goes on forever, And April’s twice as long, Who gives a damn if spring has come, As long as winter’s gone.” -R.L. Ruzicka

17. “Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” -L.M. Montgomery

18. “If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” -Buddy de Sylva

19. “Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” -Byron Caldwell Smith

20. “April weather, rain and sunshine both together.” -English Country Saying

21. “Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” -Charles Lamb 22. “April this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago Is full of whispers, full of sighs, Dazzling mud and dingy snow; Hepaticas that pleased you so Are here again, and butterflies.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay

23. “It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads.” -Jess Kidd

24. “The April winds are magical And thrill our tuneful frames The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. “Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!” -Charles G.D. Roberts

26. “Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.” -Rebecca McNutt

27. “April. Month of dust and lies.” -Naguib Mahfouz

28. “When bullying April bruised mine eyes With sleet-bound appetites and crude Experiments of green, I still was wise And kissed the blossoming rod.” -Cecil Day-Lewis

29. “I shine in tears like the sun in April.” -Cyril Tourneur

30. “The sun was warm but the wind was chill You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still You’re one month on in the middle of May.” -Robert Frost

31. “Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads ‘em.” -Thomas Otway

32. “After a hot March comes April!” -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

33. “The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.” -Lucy Larcom

34. “April’s rare capricious loveliness.” -Julia Dorr

35. “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” -E.Y. Harburg

36. “April splinters like an ice palace.” -Ruth Stone

37. “April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air. The road from the convent to town was sandy, they had to go at a walking pace; and on both sides of the carriage, in the bright, still moonlight, pilgrims trudged over the sand. And everyone was silent, deep in thought, everything around was welcoming, young, so near — the trees, the sky, even the moon — and one wanted to think it would always be so.” -Anton Chekov

38. “A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning.” -Harriet Prescott Spofford

39. “Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” -Peggy Toney Horton

40. “For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay Weeps like a tired child who had Playing with flowers, lost its way.” -Helen Hunt Jackson

41. “Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” -W.H. Gibson

42. “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” -L.M. Montgomery

43. “Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms ‘neath the sun are born And all poor April’s charms are swept away.” -John Clare

44. “Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.” -John Greenleaf Whittier

45. “Well-apparel’d April on the heel, Of limping Winter treads.” -William Shakespeare

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