Creatures Quote by Lisa Kleypas

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

— Lisa Kleypas

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

— John Lanchester

“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music”

— Georg Trakl

How drab people are, especially from the press.

— Richard Burton

“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. ”

— John Fowles

“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

— Natsume Soseki

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life…

— Charles Baudelaire

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

— Oswald Chambers

“Drab?" Soldier yelled. "I'll give you drab. Beat her, would you? Beat my wife? I'll feed your head to the vultures, you snotty little…

— Kim Hunter

“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.”

— John Fowles

I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.

— Anne Truitt

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart