Quotes About Rags

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. 

Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags-rags that wouldfly off at the first good shake.

The scarecrow's self-esteem turns rags into fashion.

In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the 'slipper', advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.

Treacle Walker? Me know that pickthank psychopomp? I know him, so I do. I know him. Him with his pots for rags and his bag and his bone and his doddering nag and nookshotten cart and catchpenny oddments. Treacle Walker? I'd not trust that one's arse with a fart.

What I loved about 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was that it was about family love and growth and understanding. The riches-to-rags premise is just the wallpaper.

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

Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

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

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.

My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.

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.

No matter how hard she had tried to keep the girl hidden away and keep her from the finer things a princess should be afforded, the girl's beauty and nature shone through. No rags, no dirt could hide Snow's luminescence. That child was a perfect rose. Now that she was of age, there was no hiding that.

What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!

If there is anything coming it may as well come soon and be done with, for with all these rags to dye before supper I have no time to waste in flirting

In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.

From the hag and hungry goblinThat into rags would rend ye,And the spirit that stands by the naked manIn the book of Moons defend ye!

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.

Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark,The beggars are coming to town;Some in rags, some in tags,And some in velvet gowns.

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away.

There are better lessons of life to be learnt in riches-to-rags story than in rags-to-riches glory.

There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist.