Maudlin Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a… — Willa Cather
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a… — Alexander Pope
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the… — Eugene V. Debs
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin.… — Gene Wilder
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. — Teddy Thompson
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. — Joseph Conrad
Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon… — Fred Phelps
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more… — Jane Haddam
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. — Beatrice Warde
No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and… — Rudyard Kipling
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse… — Elbert Hubbard
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists -… — Martin Van Creveld
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an… — Luther Burbank
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature — Luther Burbank
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet.… — Luther Burbank
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. — Sam Taylor-Wood
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov
I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a… — Stephen Fry
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. — Bill Paxton

Who Wrote These Maudlin Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 20 Maudlin Quotes as follows: