Hot Weather Quotes:

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

- Jane Austen

topic: Summer, Rainy Day, August, Summer Weather, Warm Weather

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Government, Weather, Bad Weather, Hot Weather

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

topic: Class, Snakes, Weather, Slaveholders, Venomous

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: August, Weather, Hot, Hot Weather

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

- George Carlin

topic: Sarcastic, Laughter, Smart, Sunny Weather, Forecasting

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

- Truman Capote

topic: Summer, Heart, Cities, Exposing, Hot Weather

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

- Sydney Smith

source: Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.269, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

topic: Summer, August, Weather, Summer Garden, Summer Weather

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

- Anne Fadiman

source: Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.49, Macmillan

topic: Errors, Ice Cream, Weather, Hot Weather

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

- John Egerton

source: John Egerton (1990). “Side Orders: Small Helpings of Southern Cookery & Culture”, Peachtree Pub Limited

topic: Ice, Weather, Tea, Crossed Paths, Iced Tea

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

- Tom Lehrer

topic: Rainy Day, Weather, Looks, Winter Weather, Cool Weather

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Naps, Weather, Eight, Hot Weather

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

- Ian Mcewan

source: Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan (2008). “Atonement: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

topic: Views, Weather, People, Hot Weather

I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to shows. Just being with people I really have fun with. I love the summer. I'm happy in the summer. Love hot, hot weather. I'm happy when I'm making a record, most of the time.

- Lana Del Rey

topic: Summer, Fun, Ocean, Summer Love, Hot Weather

Our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change. The deadly European heat wave of 2003, the fiery Russian heat wave of 2010 and catastrophic droughts in Texas and Oklahoma last year [2011] can each be attributed to climate change. The odds that natural variability created these extremes are minuscule, vanishingly small. To count on those odds would be like quitting your job and playing the lottery every morning to pay the bills.

- James Hansen

topic: Morning, Jobs, Past, Quitting Your Job, Recent Past

I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter.

- Freddie Highmore

source: Interview with Steave Head, www.ign.com. July 15, 2005.

topic: Thinking, Weather, Hot, Hot Weather

Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down.

- Argus Hamilton

topic: Weather, Numbers, Immigration, Hot Weather

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

- Bill Bryson

topic: Men, Weather, Climate, Hot Weather