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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

- John Mahoney

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

- Robert Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

- Robert Stevenson

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

- Frank Miller

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

The events of the day`s march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

- Robert Falcon Scott

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country`s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

- Ivan Turgenev

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

- Alex Langwenya

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

- Allison Hine

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

- Ann Snyder

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- T.S. Eliot

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow`s dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

- William Shakespeare