Shabby Quotes

73 Shabby quotes by 61 unique authors

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. — Alice Walker
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes. — Jethro Tull
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind… — John O'Donohue
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a… — John Muir
All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul… — Hermann Hesse
I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander… — Kirsten Dunst
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans. — Rick Springfield
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty… — Sid Vicious
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in… — Margery Williams
I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or… — Marilynne Robinson
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries
You have to remember. . .that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life… — Jonathan Kozol
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would… — Albert Einstein
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years… — Gabrielle Zevin
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people… — Brennan Manning
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after… — Betty Smith
Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star. — Sloane Crosley

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