Shabby Quotes

73 quotes by 61 authors

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather
They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,… — Paula Gunn Allen
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation… — Mikhail Bakunin
There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself. — Jay McInerney
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. — Willa Cather
A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling… — Confucius
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. — Edgar Friedenberg
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence.… — Hunter S. Thompson
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes… — Tom Robbins
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family… — Murray Kempton
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. — Edward Dahlberg
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low… — Price Pritchett
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting… — Jean Rhys
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. — Phil Collins
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in… — Sinclair Lewis

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