Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
“It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten.… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth. — Thomas Lansing Masson Copy Share Image
“No, this is easy-does-it shabby. I-know-who-I-am shabby. Persian-rug shabby.” — Susie Steiner Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
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