Rags Quotes

Rags Quote of the day

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.