1. The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.-Robert Frost
2. Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive.-Isabella Beeton
3. The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood-Stephen King
4. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.-Lin Yutang
5. Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language-Saul Bellow
6. The pleasures of afternoon tea run like a trickle of honey through English literature from Rupert Brooke’s wistful lines on the Old Vicarage at Grantchester to Miss Marple, calmly dissecting a case over tea cakes at a seaside hotel.-Stan Hey
7. There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music-Jorge Luis Borges
8. It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet-Dodie Smith
9. It is the end of a fine bronze-tinted afternoon with purple shadows and febrile scraps of cloud.-Daniel Arsand
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10. Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.-Barbara Jordan
11. The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.-Carl Jung
12. The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.-F Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Afternoon is not only the middle part of the day. It is the time to complete our essential task and go ahead on life.-Anonymous
14. I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. -Ronald