Quotes of: Rags Keyword

He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some...

The Double

Better rags than nakedness.

Haitian

Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.

Romanian

A ragged colt may make a good horse.

English

Your own rags are better than another's gown.

Nigerian

He whose clothes are too fine, shall go about in rags.

Mauritanian

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

Anthony Liccione

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

Numbers... a Gangsta's Child: A Woman's Journey from Rags to Riches

Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.

T. William Watts

Radburn: [brings food in to Solomon; a shriveled piece of meat and some water. Just barely enough to sustain Solomon. Radburn also has a shirt] That old thing of yours is just rags and tatters. Need something proper to wear. Go'won. Put it on. [Solom...

12 Years a Slave

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous People Meet

When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t know which way any of them will go.

Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-...

The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands, and Indigenous Peoples Meet

Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I sop rags with beer and lay them out in careful strips. With rags soaked in beer I tease cockroaches from a crack in the baseboard...

Nothing But Trouble

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Austin O'Malley

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

The Thief

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Sultan: Jasmine? Jasmine! Jasmine... [suddenly Rajah rears up in front of the Sultan with a rag in his mouth] Sultan: Confound it, Rajah! [he pulls half of the rag out of Rajah's mouth] Sultan: So! This is why Prince Achmed stormed out! Princess Jasm...

Aladdin

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

William R. Alger