Famous quotes containing the word maudlin:
“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“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 meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)