Rags Quotes · Page 3

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

— George Farquhar

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

— Garth Brooks

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

— Joseph O'Connor

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

— Charles Dickens

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

— John Bunyan

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

— Angela Carter

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

— Charles A. Reich

Obviously there is a great deal of heart in the show. You see Ellis Island, you see the Statue of Liberty. But…

— Stephen Schwartz

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with…

— Georgina Chapman

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve…

— Eliza Leslie

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

— Deborah Kerr

“Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story…

— T. William Watts

Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and…

— Scott Joplin

What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man…

— Eugene Field

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when…

— Austin O'Malley

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the…

— Loren Eiseley

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty…

— Anonymous

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity…

— Thomas Jefferson

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still,…

— John Donne

Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened…

— Cormac McCarthy

Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one…

— Nina Cassian

The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,…

— C. S. Lewis

What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by…

— Marcel Theroux

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be…

— Henri Barbusse

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies…

— Andrew Yang

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a…

— Patti Davis

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

— Thomas Hood

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,…

— Mark Twain

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone,…

— William Butler Yeats

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of…

— William Shakespeare

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to…

— Robert Fulton

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

— Herman Melville

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and…

— Hedy Lamarr

Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In…

— Joe Perry

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,…

— Charles Lamb

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters…

— August Strindberg

I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm…

— David Rees