“ I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes — and the stars through his soul. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 4K
“ I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. ”
- Bette Midler- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap! ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
- 2K
“ No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. ”
- William Watson- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 74
“ No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — it's built into all poor-quality goods. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
- 2K
“ 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. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ”
- Edgar Z. Friedenberg- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 3.5K
“ 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 dukes. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
- 3K
“ 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 be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block. ”
- Joanne Woodward- Copy
- 2.9K
“ If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered. ”
- Sherwood Anderson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic. ”
- John Hall- Copy
- 3K
“ SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.8K
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