“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

“To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?”

“It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.”

“Beautiful language! Love's peculiar, own,
But only to the spring and summer known.”

“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

“In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.”

“Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."”

“It was an unusually hot afternoon. One of those days all slowly ambling bumblebees and honeysuckle and so forth, at which the English countryside, when it puts its mind to it, excels, and quite unlike any summer day anywhere else. Calm and still and lovely, but never without a sense of something impending. The sort of day one misses even as one experiences it.”

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”

“Our nation is exceptional because it was built on the five most beautiful and powerful words in the English language, "I want to be free."”