What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen.

 

What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen.
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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (1835)

 

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

 

Francis Pharcellus Church

 

I live in Scotland, have you been to Scotland? [a few of the audience whoop and cheer] See that's the exact same number of people, as answered that question in the affirmative when I asked it in England... and erm, people... English people, don't go up there, it's nearly half the country, and you say "Why don't you go?" and they go "Ahh, well, you know, it's very dark and dreary"... 'cos they get so used to the crocodiles and the tropical storms down there in England. "Dark and dreary, you can't understand the accents, the food's disgusting, and a lot of violence, a lot of drugs, people injecting temazepam into each other's stumps... other wise I'd go, you know?"

 

Dylan Moran

 

All the world is sad and dreary,
Everywhere I roam.

 

Stephen Foster

 

Certainly, we live in a different world ... for the first time in all of known human history, we live in a world absent of the likelihood of superpower conflict. Now we live in a world in which there are superpowers, but we're not butting heads all the time. That's a very good thing for the world... but... there's still a few bad guys out there.

 

Tom Clancy

 

Ye gentlemen of England
That live at home at ease,
Ah! little do you think upon
The dangers of the seas.

 

Martyn (or Martin) Parker