"Mope" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... replied Pao-yue; "when I go out, I know well enough how to attend to everything my own self. But you people shouldn't remain in this room, and mope yourselves to death; and it would be well if you would often go over to ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... a rival in the case, my son may now have a better chance than formerly," he said to himself. "I will write and get the fellow back; girls don't wear the willow all their lives, and though she may mope and sigh for a time, she will be ready enough to take a presentable young fellow when he ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
... sweet voice from the inner end of the cave, "and you promised to give up coming here to mope; so you must keep your promise to me ...
— The Lonely Island - The Refuge of the Mutineers • R.M. Ballantyne
... "when one's young, one's loved; plenty of love, plenty of women; but they do say: 'Where there's wife, there's mope.'" ...
— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac
... What a wretched and peeuish fellow is this King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so farre out ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... you sit and look sober, Cinderella, you mope and look queer— You mope, and look dolefully queer; As chill as JOHN MILLAIS' "October," As you have done, this many a year. It is hard on you; MOZART or AUBER Might fail your depression to cheer— Had you taken the draught named of Glauber, You could scarce ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 • Various |
