W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort."
Picnics quotes
Picnics
41 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion."
Tom Barrett
Politician
"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living."
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"A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions."
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"Like the end of a picnic, all the weenies will be roasted."
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"They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it."
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"Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission."
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