On seeing John Piper's dark views of Windsor Castle painted during the last war. Given in Times Literary Supplement, 7 October 1994, page 25.
Attributed
“Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.”
A Smart Cunt: A Novella, "Marriage" (Chapter 13).
The Acid House (1994)
Speech http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199192/cmhansrd/1992-02-28/Debate-1.html in the House of Commons (28 February 1992)
1990s
Quote from Monet's letter to art-critic and his friend Gustave Geffroy, Giverny 1890; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 56
1890 - 1900
“I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.”
Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005).
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”
Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)
“Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.”
“There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).
