Shabby Quotes

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

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 looking appearance.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

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 dukes.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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 comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

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 or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?

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 into counsel.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

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 into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

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, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.

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.

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty, Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.