Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  On  Admiral Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet in World War I. The World Crisis, pt.1, ch.5.

   The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. 408

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Over the Teacups, ch.1.

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

-James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

Summer afternoonösummer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-James, Henry
Quoted in Edith Wharton  A Backward Glance (1934), ch.10, section 6.

'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seeme'  d always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Ulysses Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

-Tennyson
 Poems,'The Lotos^Eaters', l.1^6.

   Yes; I remember Adlestropö The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

-Thomas, (Philip) Edward
  'Adlestrop'.

What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.

-Plum
  My ManJeeves,'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest'.