Quotes About Shabby

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

MR. L. PROSSER was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council.

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.

The pebbled glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: Philip Marlowe...Investigations. It is a reasonably shabby door at the end of a reasonably shabby corridor in the sort of building that was new about the year the all-tile bathroom became the basis of civilization. The door is locked, but next to it is another door with same legend which is not locked. Come on in--there's nobody here but me an a big bluebottle fly. But not if you're from Manhattan, Kansas.

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

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

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

Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift … a place where poetry could never occur.

And he thought about the edge between the ninety percent and the ten percent. Sometimes that edge was cunning, and sometimes it was kind. Sometimes it was shabby. And sometimes it was heroic. But it was always mysterious. Definitely.

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Stone dropped farther back when the Explorer's blinker came on. He had to be even more careful now in the confined residential streets. His eighty-thousand-dollar Rover stood out in the shabby area like a gleaming black diamond, not that this bothered him. It was another challenge, and Stone loved challenges. They made life interesting. He

I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

There was romance of a kind in the shabby

He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.

I should give Mother a new bonnet first of all, for I heard Miss Kent say no lady would wear such a shabby one. Mrs. Smith said fine bonnets didn't make real ladies, though.

I belong to that highly respectable tribeWhich is known as the Shabby Genteel…Too proud to beg, too honest to steal.

The Selchester police station was like every other in England – square and imposing on the outside, shabby and institutional on the inside.

The shabbier the snobbier.

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

This was an attractive room, spacious and well designed, but it had the comfortably shabby air of a place whose inhabitants had long ago stopped seeing it.

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.

A shabby fellow with a furtive air can be as gallant as the next man, depending on circumstances. The

A shabby fellow with a furtive air can be as gallant as the next man, depending on circumstances.

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, he said, when he saw us. It makes me ashamed to be one.