Threadbare Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. — William Arnot
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. — Fiona Shaw
There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with… — David F. Wells
The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare,… — George Washington
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories — Horace Walpole
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are… — Miguel de Unamuno
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are… — Gabrielle Anwar
I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the… — D. H. Lawrence
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of… — H.G. Wells
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language… — A. S. Byatt
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it. — Luc de Clapiers
Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are… — Brigham Young
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
Death's power is limited -- It cannot eradicate memories Or slay love It cannot destroy even a threadbare faith Or permanently hobble the smallest hope… — Donna VanLiere
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line… — Thomas Hardy
â€¦* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… — Sylvia Plath

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24 authors contributed a total of 25 Threadbare Quotes as follows: