Top 34 Not Too Shabby Quotes
#1. I don't do drugs, I've never been arrested, and from what I hear, I'm not too shabby in bed. Not that any of you people will ever have the opportunity to discover that first-hand!
Diana Peterfreund
#2. I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
Jon Favreau
#3. 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
#4. Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
#5. Sometimes I get the sense that it's all "internal" ... Maybe that's why I lived alone and did nothing for three years ... (The man hardly ever washed, he didn't need a typewriter, all he had to do was sit in that shabby armchair for things to flee of their own accord)
Roberto Bolano
#6. Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.
Anthony Powell
#7. 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
#8. To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow
Charlotte Bronte
#9. I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.
Kirsten Dunst
#12. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
Margery Williams
#13. If you had not done such a shabby thing to me I would not have had you kidnapped.
Georgette Heyer
#14. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these
Margery Williams
#15. The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondered if his own broken heart might be found in there, hidden among the unclaimed possessions of another time. Boarded up in the basement of a condemned hotel. Lost, but never forgotten.
Jamie Ford
#16. It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days, you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#17. We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.
Phil Collins
#18. But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.
That's why they become politicians.
Anthony Horowitz
#19. Nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#20. It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
Rick Springfield
#21. They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#22. There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
Charlene Weir
#23. 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.
Iris Murdoch
#24. 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.
David Malouf
#25. 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.
Anne Tyler
#26. Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman." She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
Edith Wharton
#27. He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement.
"We were traveling anonymously for safety - " explained the magus.
"But surely - "
" - and then we were robbed on the road."
"Ah," said the king, "the danger in being anonymous.
Megan Whalen Turner
#28. How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.
Virginia Woolf
#29. Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
George Bernard Shaw
#30. Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
Peter De Vries
#31. Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal - Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent topaz and ruby at four o'clock; cold and shabby at six.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#32. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#33. She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake.
Emma Cline
#34. Her gloves, as Razumihin noticed, were not merely shabby but had holes in them, and yet this evident poverty gave the two ladies an air of special dignity, which is always found in people who know how to wear poor clothes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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