moroseness is first a sign that we ourselves are miserable; and secondly it is the occasion of making others miserable too.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
A subject of constant gossip, of frequent scandal, with his teams of half-tame horses, his flashy clothes, his furious passions for worthless women, his moroseness and violence, he was still, so far, a very negative character, a mere mass of rough material, out of which a man might be made.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
The curious mixture of brow-beating moroseness with a brazen readiness to accept and even extort favours, he would appear, as he ceased to be young, to have gradually inherited from his father; he was ready to live on the alms of the French Court, while never losing an opportunity of declaiming against the ignoble treatment which that same Court had inflicted on him.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)