Quotes About Moroseness

#1. For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.

John Calvin

#2. I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

Walter Savage Landor

#3. But the end is there, transforming everything. For us, the man is already the hero of the story. His moroseness, his money troubles are much more precious than ours, they are all gilded by the light of future passions.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. There was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

Emily Bronte

#7. Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Isaac Watts

#8. We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

Walter Savage Landor

#9. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. You must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.

Marcel Tabuteau

#11. Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. Said Opie Read to E.P. Roe,
"How do you like Gaboriau?"
"I like him very much indeed!"
Said E.P. Roe to Opie Read.

Julian Street

#13. She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtail

Nicki Minaj

#15. Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb)
Ooo, I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi)
I think I'm never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Dont give up the ship... sell it...

Jean Jacques

#17. I think that ... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.

Joe Perry

#18. Besides, I've been feeling a little blue - just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P.G. Wodehouse

#20. Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.

Auberon Waugh

#21. You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice - it's trying to protect you.

Bryant McGill

#22. I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

David Levithan