Quotes of Sullen - somelinesforyou

“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ”

- William Cowper

“ Give me some music - music, moody foodOf us that trade in love. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ”

- Horace

“ Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness. ”

- John Milton

“ My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Parody is homage gone sour. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions. ”

- Albert Barnes

“ Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth, But, being moody, give him time and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ”

- Princess Diana

“ Sulky labor and the labor of sorrow are little worth. Whatever a man does with a guilty feeling he is apt to do wrong ; and whatever he does with a melancholy feeling he is likely to do by halves. ”

- James Hamilton

“ Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, perhaps... but the lungs are fine. ”

- A. P. Herbert

“ Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead. ”

- Unknown

“ I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. ”

- Jacques Maritain

“ You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Sweet meat must have sour sauce. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ You've got to take the bitter with the sour. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. ”

- Robert Burns

“ This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance — the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ”

- John Keble

“ I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts. ”

- Claude T. Bissell

“ When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God… ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing… ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes
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