Quotes About February

The month of love and cold

Although our hearts may be warm on Valentine’s Day, winter still rages on with a vengeance in February. But there is still a little glimmer of warmer days ahead, so it’s also a month to be hopeful. These quotes are about February, the month of love and cold.

1. “In February, there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.” -Patience Strong

2. “February is the border between winter and spring.” -Terri Guillemets

3. “February — the month of love? No wonder the shortest one in the calendar.” -Dinesh Kumar Biran

4. “The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.” -William Cullen Bryant

5. “Today is the first of February, snowy, brilliant, but dripping with the sound of spring wherever the sun lies warm, and calling with the heart of spring yonder where the crows are assembling. There is spring in the talk of the chickadees outside my window, and in the cheerful bluster of a red squirrel in the hickory.” -Dallas Lore Sharp

6. “In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.” -Linda Ellerbee

7. “The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?” -Alice McDermott

8. “February, bending from Heaven. In azure mirth, it kissed the forehead of the Earth and smiled upon the silent sea, and bade the frozen streams be free, and waked to music all their fountains, and breathed upon the frozen mountains.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

9. “Why does February feel like one big Tuesday?” -Todd Stocker

10. “February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.” -Randeep Hooda

11. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.” -Jim Gaffigan

12. “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers…February is for doers.” -Marc Parent

13. “February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.” -Anna Quindlen

14. “Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that winter’s woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air.” -William Morris

15. “Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.” -Charmaine J. Forde

16. “February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can’t begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it’s so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it’s so great.” -Lionel Shriver

17. “February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again….” -Sara Coleridge

18. “There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.” -Gertrude Jekyll

19. “While it is February, one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.” -Patience Strong

20. “The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.” -Eiji Yoshikawa

21. “February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white, but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.” -Gladys Hasty Carroll

22. “One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you’re daydreaming about that ‘one that got away,’ or you’re recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine’s Day, romanticizing the past isn’t helpful — nor accurate.” -Amy Morin

23. “Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” -William Shakespeare

24. “Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin’; if you’re not mitten-smitten, you’ll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.” -The Old Farmer’s Almanac

25. “February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.” -Edgar Fawcett

26. “If you meet 29th February, think of something unique for it is the only day that defines a year as a leap year. It is the only day that makes February truly unique.” -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

27. “I know him, February’s thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.” -George Meredith

28. “The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: He or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.” -Tom Robbins

29. “When February sun shines cold There comes a day when in the air The wings of winter slow unfold And show the golden summer there.” -Philip Henry Savage

30. “When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities.” -Shannon Wiersbitzky

31. “Even winter, the hardest season, the most implacable, dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.” -Clive Barker

32. “On the wind in February Snowflakes float still, Half inclined to turn to rain, Nipping, dripping, chill.” -Christina Georgina Rossetti

33. “Though it was the end of February, the day was a lazy sort of cold. The sun slipped through the cloud in bursts, reminding the landscape that it was still there, prodding snow piles to relax into puddles and stirring sleeping seeds under the ground.” -Erika Robuck

34. “Cold and snowy February does seem slow and trying, very. Still, a month made gay by Cupid never could be wholly stupid.” -Louise Bennett Weaver

35. “February. Take ink and weep, write February as you’re sobbing, while black spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing.” -Boris Pasternak

36. “I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter, I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it, they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day. December and January are cold and wet, but, somehow, that’s their right. February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down….So February sneaks in a couple of beautiful days early on, and just when you’re stretching out like a cat waking up, bang! February hits you right in the stomach….February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse — except August.” -Katherine Paterson

37. “Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.” -Lorraine Snelling

38. “January cold and desolate; February dripping wet.” -Christina Giorgina Rossetti

39. “It is frequently asked, ‘Why must February have only 28 days? Why can’t you borrow one day from the end of January and one day from the beginning of March and make all three months 30 days long?’ The answer is that while you can end January on the 30th, you can’t begin March on the 2nd.” -Robert Brault

40. “Along about the beginning of February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer, I caught one of those colds which last for two days in the children and two weeks with me.” -Shirley Jackson

41. “Don’t wait until February to start living in January.” -Anthony T. Hincks

42. “The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer.” -V. Sackville-West

43. “February makes a bridge and March breaks it.” -Proverb

44. “Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life.” -Sebastian Barry

45. “Thick February mists cling heavily to the dead earth and to each leafless tree.” -Emma Lazarus

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