Shabby Quotes

73 Shabby quotes by 61 unique authors

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since… — Martin Amis
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing… — Confucius
A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am… — Martha Gellhorn
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent… — George Eliot
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that… — Margery Williams
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one… — Charles Dickens
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection… — O. Henry
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. — O. Henry
A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age. — Michael Scott
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians. — Anthony Horowitz
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean… — H.G. Wells
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,”… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate,… — Alice Munro
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for… — C.S. Lewis
He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed on… — Megan Whalen Turner
Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a… — Margery Williams
In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the… — Jane Leavy
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people… — Margery Williams
'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't how you are… — Margery Williams
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get… — Unknown Author

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