“It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”

— Thomas De Quincey , book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

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English author 1785–1859

Susan Ertz (1887–1985) British writer

Anger in the Sky (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), p. 134.

“… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

“The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.”

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) English illustrator and author

On the Brompton Oratory, in "Table Talk" p. 63.
Under the Hill and Other Essays (1904)

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.”

Alan Bennett (1934) English actor, author

Diary entry for October 13, 1984, pp. 137-138.
Writing Home (1994)

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Sinclair Lewis book Elmer Gantry

Source: Elmer Gantry (1927)

“The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.”

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist

Sens-plastique

“I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics."
"Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear."
"You show me where it says that in the Bible.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Heaven, Texas

“I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.”

Wilkie Collins book Armadale

Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] ( p. 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=v7sBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130)
Also in Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot by Carolyn Oulton [Springer, 2002, ISBN 0-230-50464-7] ( p. 136 https://books.google.com/books?id=abuADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136)

“It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”

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