“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
Alice Walker book The Color Purple
Source: The Color Purple
“The Dionysian is no picnic.”
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
A misquotation of a haiku by Auden found elsewhere on this page ("Thoughts of his own death" etc.)
Misattributed
Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
of thunder at a picnic.
“Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
“Red China will make Libya look like a picnic if that government feels threatened.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011), Q&A
“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 50
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
A Leaf of Spearmint, III <br class="br"> Little Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/ltrvs10.txt (1895)