Quotes About Shabby

Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.

The third-class funeral is a shabby one and costs only a hundred dollars. The weather is cold and foggy. The coffin has no catafalque. There are two horses and two reverends. Not a carriage in sight.

Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal.

If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.

A new-comer of any age or either sex was an impressive curiosity in the poor little shabby village of St. Petersburg.

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.

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

The 'Law & Order' audition was so last-minute. I was already in a shabby suit, the journey was a complete disaster, my train stopped early, it was raining, and I had to show the cabbie the way... I rushed in apologising, gave this terrible reading, and ended up telling my whole journey to them. I must have bored them to tears.

to me it sounded more like a pack of thieves making a deal, but then to me no human activity is so reliably boring and shabby as politics.

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

looked like hammered owl crap.

So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch.

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

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

Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.

So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and the usual trappings of rather shabby but gallant old age...

Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.

Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the men lose more and more things they never owned in the first place.

In the front first floor, a clerk who looked something between a publican and a rat-catcher — a large pale, puffed, swollen man — was attentively engaged with three or four people of shabby appearance, whom he treated as unceremoniously as everybody seemed to be treated who contributed to Mr. Jaggers's coffers.

It is not fair; we live in such a hypocritical society where only film stars are supposed to dress up. It is almost like the shabbier you look, the more focused you are in your game.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.

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