Sullen may refer to:
- Sullens, Swiss municipality
- Sullen River, Russian novel (see Угрюм-река (книга)) named after the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia
- Squire Sullen and Kate Sullen, fictional characters in the 1707 comedy play The Beaux' Stratagem
Famous quotes containing the word sullen:
“There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)